Canzone Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCEFCFGHGGAHAAA IAJAKLKLMNNMOOPQ OROROSSATATUAUGG AVAVAWWXGXGGYYZA2 AAAAB2C2C2B2B2D2RD2D 2ROO AAAAAE2WE2WF2SF2SF2A A AG2G2AASH2SH2H2GOGOI 2I2 OSOSSSSS F

Si debile il filo a cui s' atteneA
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HE GRIEVES IN ABSENCE FROM LAURAB
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The thread on which my weary life dependsC
So fragile is and weakD
If none kind succour lendsC
Soon 'neath the painful burden will it breakE
Since doom'd to take my sad farewell of herF
In whom begins and endsC
My bliss one hope to stirF
My sinking spirit from its black despairG
Whispers Though lost awhileH
That form so dear and fairG
Sad soul the trial bearG
For thee e'en yet the sun may brightly shineA
And days more happy smileH
Once more the lost loved treasure may be thineA
This thought awhile sustains me but againA
To fail me and forsake in worse excess of painA
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Time flies apace the silent hours and swiftI
So urge his journey onA
Short span to me is leftJ
Even to think how quick to death I runA
Scarce in the orient heaven yon mountain crestK
Smiles in the sun's first rayL
When in the adverse westK
His long round run we see his light decayL
So small of life the spaceM
So frail and clogg'd with woeN
To mortal man belowN
That when I find me from that beauteous faceM
Thus torn by fate's decreeO
Unable at a wish with her to beO
So poor the profit that old comforts giveP
I know not how I brook in such a state to liveQ
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Each place offends save where alone I seeO
Those eyes so sweet and brightR
Which still shall bear the keyO
Of the soft thoughts I hide from other sightR
And though hard exile harder weighs on meO
Whatever mood betideS
I ask no theme besideS
For all is hateful that I since have seenA
What rivers and what heightsT
What shores and seas betweenA
Me rise and those twin lightsT
Which made the storm and blackness of my daysU
One beautiful sereneA
To which tormented Memory still straysU
Free as my life then pass'd from every careG
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bearG
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Alas self parleying thus I but renewA
The warm wish in my mindV
Which first within it grewA
The day I left my better half behindV
If by long absence love is quench'd then whoA
Guides me to the old baitW
Whence all my sorrows dateW
Why rather not my lips in silence seal'dX
By finest crystal ne'erG
Were hidden tints reveal'dX
So faithfully and fairG
As my sad spirit naked lays and bareG
Its every secret partY
And the wild sweetness thrilling in my heartY
Through eyes which restlessly o'erfraught with tearsZ
Seek her whose sight alone with instant gladness cheersA2
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Strange pleasure yet so often that withinA
The human heart to reignA
Is found to woo and winA
Each new brief toy that men most sigh to gainA
And I am one from sadness who reliefB2
So draw as if it stillC2
My study were to fillC2
These eyes with softness and this heart with griefB2
As weighs with me in chiefB2
Nay rather with sole forceD2
The language and the lightR
Of those dear eyes to urge me on that courseD2
So where its fullest sourceD2
Long sorrow finds I fix my often sightR
And thus my heart and eyes like sufferers beO
Which in love's path have been twin pioneers to meO
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The golden tresses which should make I weenA
The sun with envy pineA
And the sweet look sereneA
Where love's own rays so bright and burning shineA
That ere its time they make my strength declineA
Each wise and truthful wordE2
Rare in the world which lateW
She smiling gave no more are seen or heardE2
But this of all my fateW
Is hardest to endureF2
That here I am deniedS
The gentle greeting angel like and pureF2
Which still to virtue's sideS
Inclined my heart with modest magic lureF2
So that in sooth I nothing hope againA
Of comfort more than this how best to bear my painA
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And with fit ecstacy my loss to mournA
The soft hand's snowy charmG2
The finely rounded armG2
The winning ways by turns that quiet scornA
Chaste anger proud humility adornA
The fair young breast that shrinedS
Intellect pure and highH2
Are now all hid the rugged Alp behindS
My trust were vain to tryH2
And see her ere I dieH2
For though awhile he dareG
Such dreams indulge Hope ne'er can constant beO
But falls back in despairG
Her whom Heaven honours there again to seeO
Where virtue courtesy in her best mixI2
And where so oft I pray my future home to fixI2
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My Song if thou shalt seeO
Our common lady in that dear retreatS
We both may hope that sheO
Will stretch to thee her fair and fav'ring handS
Whence I so far am bann'dS
Touch touch it not but reverent at her feetS
Tell her I will be there with earliest speedS
A man of flesh and blood or else a spirit freedS
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MACGREGORF

Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)



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