Donna Mi Prega Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHIGJKLLML NBOPQIJOROSTGUHGUVVV GVROWXX VXRVYNOVVZMVBA2A2B2R B2VXVC2D2XXE2XXVVXCF 2CRVCRR CG2G2XXX

Because a lady asks me I would tellA
Of an affect that comes often and is fellA
And is so overweening Love by nameB
E'en its deniers can now hear the truthC
I for the nonce to them that know it callD
Having no hope at allD
that man who is base in heartE
Can bear his part of witF
into the light of itF
And save they know't aright from nature's sourceG
I have no will to prove Love's courseG
or sayH
Where he takes rest who maketh him to beI
Or what his active virtu is or what his forceG
Nay nor his very essence or his modeJ
What his placation why he is in verbK
Or if a man have mightL
To show him visible to men's sightL
In memory's locus taketh he his state PlaceM
Formed there in manner as a mist of lightL
Upon a dusk that is come from Mars and staysN
Love is created hath a sensate nameB
His modus takes from soul from heart his willO
From form seen doth he start that understoodP
Taketh in latent intellectQ
As in a subject readyI
place and abodeJ
Yet in that place it ever is unstillO
Spreading its rays it tendeth never downR
By quality but is its own effect unendinglyO
Not to delight but in an ardour of thoughtS
That the base likeness of it kindleth notT
It is not virtu but perfection's sourceG
Lying within perfection postulateU
Not by the reason but tis felt I sayH
Beyond salvation holdeth its judging forceG
Maintains intention reason's peer and mateU
Poor in discernment being thus weakness' friendV
Often his power meeteth with death in the endV
Be he withstayedV
or from true courseG
bewrayedV
E'en though he meet not with hate or villeinyR
Save that perfection fails be it but a littleO
Nor can man say he hath his life by chanceW
Or that he hath not stablished seignioryX
Or loseth power e'en lost to memoryX
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He comes to be and is when will's so greatV
It twists itself from out all natural measureX
Leisure s adornment puts he then never onR
Never thereafter but moves changing stateV
Moves changing colour or to laugh or weepY
Or wries the face with fear and little staysN
Yea resteth littleO
yet is found the mostV
Where folk of worth be hostV
And his strange property sets sighs to moveZ
And wills man look into unformed spaceM
Rousing there thirstV
that breaketh into flameB
None can imagine loveA2
that knows not loveA2
Love doth not move but draweth all to himB2
Nor doth he turnR
for a whimB2
to find delightV
Nor to seek out surelyX
great knowledge or slightV
Look drawn from likeC2
delight maketh certain in seemingD2
Nor can in covert cowerX
beauty so nearX
Not yet wild cruel as dartsE2
So hath man craft from fearX
in such his desireX
To follow a noble spiritV
edge that is and point to the dartV
Though from her face indiscernibleX
He caught fallethC
plumb the spike of the targeF2
Who well proceedeth form not seethC
following his own emanationR
There beyond colour essence set apartV
In midst of darkness light light giveth forthC
Beyond all falsity worthy of faith aloneR
That in him solely is compassion bornR
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Safe may'st thou go my canzon whither thee pleasethC
Thou art so fair attired that every man and eachG2
Shall praise thy speechG2
So we have sense or glow with reason's fireX
To stand with otherX
hast thou no desireX

Ezra Pound



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