Donna Mi Prega Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHIGJKLLML NBOPQIJOROSTGUHGUVVV GVROWXX VXRVYNOVVZMVBA2A2B2R B2VXVC2D2XXE2XXVVXCF 2CRVCRR CG2G2XXX| Because a lady asks me I would tell | A |
| Of an affect that comes often and is fell | A |
| And is so overweening Love by name | B |
| E'en its deniers can now hear the truth | C |
| I for the nonce to them that know it call | D |
| Having no hope at all | D |
| that man who is base in heart | E |
| Can bear his part of wit | F |
| into the light of it | F |
| And save they know't aright from nature's source | G |
| I have no will to prove Love's course | G |
| or say | H |
| Where he takes rest who maketh him to be | I |
| Or what his active virtu is or what his force | G |
| Nay nor his very essence or his mode | J |
| What his placation why he is in verb | K |
| Or if a man have might | L |
| To show him visible to men's sight | L |
| In memory's locus taketh he his state Place | M |
| Formed there in manner as a mist of light | L |
| Upon a dusk that is come from Mars and stays | N |
| Love is created hath a sensate name | B |
| His modus takes from soul from heart his will | O |
| From form seen doth he start that understood | P |
| Taketh in latent intellect | Q |
| As in a subject ready | I |
| place and abode | J |
| Yet in that place it ever is unstill | O |
| Spreading its rays it tendeth never down | R |
| By quality but is its own effect unendingly | O |
| Not to delight but in an ardour of thought | S |
| That the base likeness of it kindleth not | T |
| It is not virtu but perfection's source | G |
| Lying within perfection postulate | U |
| Not by the reason but tis felt I say | H |
| Beyond salvation holdeth its judging force | G |
| Maintains intention reason's peer and mate | U |
| Poor in discernment being thus weakness' friend | V |
| Often his power meeteth with death in the end | V |
| Be he withstayed | V |
| or from true course | G |
| bewrayed | V |
| E'en though he meet not with hate or villeiny | R |
| Save that perfection fails be it but a little | O |
| Nor can man say he hath his life by chance | W |
| Or that he hath not stablished seigniory | X |
| Or loseth power e'en lost to memory | X |
| - | |
| He comes to be and is when will's so great | V |
| It twists itself from out all natural measure | X |
| Leisure s adornment puts he then never on | R |
| Never thereafter but moves changing state | V |
| Moves changing colour or to laugh or weep | Y |
| Or wries the face with fear and little stays | N |
| Yea resteth little | O |
| yet is found the most | V |
| Where folk of worth be host | V |
| And his strange property sets sighs to move | Z |
| And wills man look into unformed space | M |
| Rousing there thirst | V |
| that breaketh into flame | B |
| None can imagine love | A2 |
| that knows not love | A2 |
| Love doth not move but draweth all to him | B2 |
| Nor doth he turn | R |
| for a whim | B2 |
| to find delight | V |
| Nor to seek out surely | X |
| great knowledge or slight | V |
| Look drawn from like | C2 |
| delight maketh certain in seeming | D2 |
| Nor can in covert cower | X |
| beauty so near | X |
| Not yet wild cruel as darts | E2 |
| So hath man craft from fear | X |
| in such his desire | X |
| To follow a noble spirit | V |
| edge that is and point to the dart | V |
| Though from her face indiscernible | X |
| He caught falleth | C |
| plumb the spike of the targe | F2 |
| Who well proceedeth form not seeth | C |
| following his own emanation | R |
| There beyond colour essence set apart | V |
| In midst of darkness light light giveth forth | C |
| Beyond all falsity worthy of faith alone | R |
| That in him solely is compassion born | R |
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| Safe may'st thou go my canzon whither thee pleaseth | C |
| Thou art so fair attired that every man and each | G2 |
| Shall praise thy speech | G2 |
| So we have sense or glow with reason's fire | X |
| To stand with other | X |
| hast thou no desire | X |
Ezra Pound
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