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' attene | A |
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| HE GRIEVES IN ABSENCE FROM LAURA | B |
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| The thread on which my weary life depends | C |
| So fragile is and weak | D |
| If none kind succour lends | C |
| Soon 'neath the painful burden will it break | E |
| Since doom'd to take my sad farewell of her | F |
| In whom begins and ends | C |
| My bliss one hope to stir | F |
| My sinking spirit from its black despair | G |
| Whispers Though lost awhile | H |
| That form so dear and fair | G |
| Sad soul the trial bear | G |
| For thee e'en yet the sun may brightly shine | A |
| And days more happy smile | H |
| Once more the lost loved treasure may be thine | A |
| This thought awhile sustains me but again | A |
| To fail me and forsake in worse excess of pain | A |
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| Time flies apace the silent hours and swift | I |
| So urge his journey on | A |
| Short span to me is left | J |
| Even to think how quick to death I run | A |
| Scarce in the orient heaven yon mountain crest | K |
| Smiles in the sun's first ray | L |
| When in the adverse west | K |
| His long round run we see his light decay | L |
| So small of life the space | M |
| So frail and clogg'd with woe | N |
| To mortal man below | N |
| That when I find me from that beauteous face | M |
| Thus torn by fate's decree | O |
| Unable at a wish with her to be | O |
| So poor the profit that old comforts give | P |
| I know not how I brook in such a state to live | Q |
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| Each place offends save where alone I see | O |
| Those eyes so sweet and bright | R |
| Which still shall bear the key | O |
| Of the soft thoughts I hide from other sight | R |
| And though hard exile harder weighs on me | O |
| Whatever mood betide | S |
| I ask no theme beside | S |
| For all is hateful that I since have seen | A |
| What rivers and what heights | T |
| What shores and seas between | A |
| Me rise and those twin lights | T |
| Which made the storm and blackness of my days | U |
| One beautiful serene | A |
| To which tormented Memory still strays | U |
| Free as my life then pass'd from every care | G |
| So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear | G |
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| Alas self parleying thus I but renew | A |
| The warm wish in my mind | V |
| Which first within it grew | A |
| The day I left my better half behind | V |
| If by long absence love is quench'd then who | A |
| Guides me to the old bait | W |
| Whence all my sorrows date | W |
| Why rather not my lips in silence seal'd | X |
| By finest crystal ne'er | G |
| Were hidden tints reveal'd | X |
| So faithfully and fair | G |
| As my sad spirit naked lays and bare | G |
| Its every secret part | Y |
| And the wild sweetness thrilling in my heart | Y |
| Through eyes which restlessly o'erfraught with tears | Z |
| Seek her whose sight alone with instant gladness cheers | A2 |
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| Strange pleasure yet so often that within | A |
| The human heart to reign | A |
| Is found to woo and win | A |
| Each new brief toy that men most sigh to gain | A |
| And I am one from sadness who relief | B2 |
| So draw as if it still | C2 |
| My study were to fill | C2 |
| These eyes with softness and this heart with grief | B2 |
| As weighs with me in chief | B2 |
| Nay rather with sole force | D2 |
| The language and the light | R |
| Of those dear eyes to urge me on that course | D2 |
| So where its fullest source | D2 |
| Long sorrow finds I fix my often sight | R |
| And thus my heart and eyes like sufferers be | O |
| Which in love's path have been twin pioneers to me | O |
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| The golden tresses which should make I ween | A |
| The sun with envy pine | A |
| And the sweet look serene | A |
| Where love's own rays so bright and burning shine | A |
| That ere its time they make my strength decline | A |
| Each wise and truthful word | E2 |
| Rare in the world which late | W |
| She smiling gave no more are seen or heard | E2 |
| But this of all my fate | W |
| Is hardest to endure | F2 |
| That here I am denied | S |
| The gentle greeting angel like and pure | F2 |
| Which still to virtue's side | S |
| Inclined my heart with modest magic lure | F2 |
| So that in sooth I nothing hope again | A |
| Of comfort more than this how best to bear my pain | A |
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| And with fit ecstacy my loss to mourn | A |
| The soft hand's snowy charm | G2 |
| The finely rounded arm | G2 |
| The winning ways by turns that quiet scorn | A |
| Chaste anger proud humility adorn | A |
| The fair young breast that shrined | S |
| Intellect pure and high | H2 |
| Are now all hid the rugged Alp behind | S |
| My trust were vain to try | H2 |
| And see her ere I die | H2 |
| For though awhile he dare | G |
| Such dreams indulge Hope ne'er can constant be | O |
| But falls back in despair | G |
| Her whom Heaven honours there again to see | O |
| Where virtue courtesy in her best mix | I2 |
| And where so oft I pray my future home to fix | I2 |
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| My Song if thou shalt see | O |
| Our common lady in that dear retreat | S |
| We both may hope that she | O |
| Will stretch to thee her fair and fav'ring hand | S |
| Whence I so far am bann'd | S |
| Touch touch it not but reverent at her feet | S |
| Tell her I will be there with earliest speed | S |
| A man of flesh and blood or else a spirit freed | S |
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| MACGREGOR | F |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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