Canzone Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEEFGH AIJKLJM NGLAOAP AMQARST AAUKAVA AWXYADZ A2B2C2D2AAE2 AKF2AE2G2E2 H2I2 K| Verdi panni sanguigni oscuri o persi | A |
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| WHETHER OR NOT HE SHOULD CEASE TO LOVE LAURA | B |
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| Green robes and red purple or brown or gray | C |
| No lady ever wore | D |
| Nor hair of gold in sunny tresses twined | E |
| So beautiful as she who spoils my mind | E |
| Of judgment and from freedom's lofty path | F |
| So draws me with her that I may not bear | G |
| Any less heavy yoke | H |
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| And if indeed at times for wisdom fails | A |
| Where martyrdom breeds doubt | I |
| The soul should ever arm it to complain | J |
| Suddenly from each reinless rude desire | K |
| Her smile recalls and razes from my heart | L |
| Every rash enterprise while all disdain | J |
| Is soften'd in her sight | M |
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| For all that I have ever borne for love | N |
| And still am doom'd to bear | G |
| Till she who wounded it shall heal my heart | L |
| Rejecting homage e'en while she invites | A |
| Be vengeance done but let not pride nor ire | O |
| 'Gainst my humility the lovely pass | A |
| By which I enter'd bar | P |
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| The hour and day wherein I oped my eyes | A |
| On the bright black and white | M |
| Which drive me thence where eager love impell'd | Q |
| Where of that life which now my sorrow makes | A |
| New roots and she in whom our age is proud | R |
| Whom to behold without a tender awe | S |
| Needs heart of lead or wood | T |
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| The tear then from these eyes that frequent falls | A |
| HE thus my pale cheek bathes | A |
| Who planted first within my fenceless flank | U |
| Love's shaft diverts me not from my desire | K |
| And in just part the proper sentence falls | A |
| For her my spirit sighs and worthy she | V |
| To staunch its secret wounds | A |
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| Spring from within me these conflicting thoughts | A |
| To weary wound myself | W |
| Each a sure sword against its master turn'd | X |
| Nor do I pray her to be therefore freed | Y |
| For less direct to heaven all other paths | A |
| And to that glorious kingdom none can soar | D |
| Certes in sounder bark | Z |
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| Benignant stars their bright companionship | A2 |
| Gave to the fortunate side | B2 |
| When came that fair birth on our nether world | C2 |
| Its sole star since who as the laurel leaf | D2 |
| The worth of honour fresh and fragrant keeps | A |
| Where lightnings play not nor ungrateful winds | A |
| Ever o'ersway its head | E2 |
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| Well know I that the hope to paint in verse | A |
| Her praises would but tire | K |
| The worthiest hand that e'er put forth its pen | F2 |
| Who in all Memory's richest cells e'er saw | A |
| Such angel virtue so rare beauty shrined | E2 |
| As in those eyes twin symbols of all worth | G2 |
| Sweet keys of my gone heart | E2 |
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| Lady wherever shines the sun than you | H2 |
| Love has no dearer pledge | I2 |
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| MACGREGOR | K |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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