Canzone V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B ACDCADDEEFFGFH IJKKILLMMNMONO PQQQPQQIIRRSRS QAQAQQQNNIIIII T IIQIIQRRQIIQ TTPUNPVVQIIQ QQIIIIQQUIIU IIQIIQIIAWWA AAAQQAQQQQQQ OXYWWY Q

Nella stagion che 'l ciel rapido inchinaA
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NIGHT BRINGS REPOSE TO OTHERS BUT NOT TO HIMB
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In that still season when the rapid sunA
Drives down the west and daylight flies to greetC
Nations that haply wait his kindling flameD
In some strange land alone her weary feetC
The time worn pilgrim finds with toil fordoneA
Yet but the more speeds on her languid frameD
Her solitude the sameD
When night has closed aroundE
Yet has the wanderer foundE
A deep though short forgetfulness at lastF
Of every woe and every labour pastF
But ah my grief that with each moment growsG
As fast and yet more fastF
Day urges on is heaviest at its closeH
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When Phoebus rolls his everlasting wheelsI
To give night room and from encircling woodJ
Broader and broader yet descends the shadeK
The labourer arms him for his evening tradeK
And all the weight his burthen'd heart concealsI
Lightens with glad discourse or descant rudeL
Then spreads his board with foodL
Such as the forest hoarM
To our first fathers boreM
By us disdain'd yet praised in hall and bowerN
But let who will the cup of joyance pourM
I never knew I will not say of mirthO
But of repose an hourN
When Phoebus leaves and stars salute the earthO
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Yon shepherd when the mighty star of dayP
He sees descending to its western bedQ
And the wide Orient all with shade embrown'dQ
Takes his old crook and from the fountain headQ
Green mead and beechen bower pursues his wayP
Calling with welcome voice his flocks aroundQ
Then far from human soundQ
Some desert cave he strowsI
With leaves and verdant boughsI
And lays him down without a thought to sleepR
Ah cruel Love then dost thou bid me keepR
My idle chase the airy steps pursuingS
Of her I ever weepR
Who flies me still my endless toil renewingS
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E'en the rude seaman in some cave confinedQ
Pillows his head as daylight quits the sceneA
On the hard deck with vilest mat o'erspreadQ
And when the Sun in orient wave sereneA
Bathes his resplendent front and leaves behindQ
Those antique pillars of his boundless bedQ
Forgetfulness has shedQ
O'er man and beast and flowerN
Her mild restoring powerN
But my determined grief finds no reposeI
And every day but aggravates the woesI
Of that remorseless flood that ten long yearsI
Flowing yet ever flowsI
Nor know I what can check its ceaseless tearsI
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MERIVALET
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What time towards the western skiesI
The sun with parting radiance fliesI
And other climes gilds with expected lightQ
Some aged pilgrim dame who straysI
Alone fatigued through pathless waysI
Hastens her step and dreads the approach of nightQ
Then the day's journey o'er she'll steepR
Her sense awhile in grateful sleepR
Forgetting all the pain and peril pastQ
But I alas find no reposeI
Each sun to me brings added woesI
While light's eternal orb rolls from us fastQ
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When the sun's wheels no longer glowT
And hills their lengthen'd shadows throwT
The hind collects his tools and carols gayP
Then spreads his board with frugal fareU
Such as those homely acorns wereN
Which all revere yet casting them awayP
Let those who pleasure can enjoyV
In cheerfulness their hours employV
While I of all earth's wretches most unblestQ
Whether the sun fierce darts his beamsI
Whether the moon more mildly gleamsI
Taste no delight no momentary restQ
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When the swain views the star of dayQ
Quench in the pillowing waves its rayQ
And scatter darkness o'er the eastern skiesI
Rising his custom'd crook he takesI
The beech wood fountain plain forsakesI
As calmly homeward with his flock he hiesI
Remote from man then on his bedQ
In cot or cave with fresh leaves spreadQ
He courts soft slumber and suspense from careU
While thou fell Love bidst me pursueI
That voice those footsteps which subdueI
My soul yet movest not th' obdurate fairU
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Lock'd in some bay to taste reposeI
On the hard deck the sailor throwsI
His coarse garb o'er him when the car of lightQ
Granada with Marocco leavesI
The Pillars famed Iberia's wavesI
And the world's hush'd and all its race in nightQ
But never will my sorrows ceaseI
Successive days their sum increaseI
Though just ten annual suns have mark'd my painA
Say to this bosom's poignant griefW
Who shall administer reliefW
Say who at length shall free me from my chainA
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And since there's comfort in the strainA
I see at eve along each plainA
And furrow'd hill the unyoked team returnA
Why at that hour will no one stayQ
My sighs or bear my yoke awayQ
Why bathed in tears must I unceasing mournA
Wretch that I was to fix my sightQ
First on that face with such delightQ
Till on my thought its charms were strong imprestQ
Which force shall not efface nor artQ
Ere from this frame my soul dispartQ
Nor know I then if passion's votaries restQ
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O hasty strain devoid of worthO
Sad as the bard who brought thee forthX
Show not thyself be with the world at strifeY
From nook to nook indulge thy griefW
While thy lorn parent seeks reliefW
Nursing that amorous flame which feeds his lifeY
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NOTTQ

Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)



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