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 inchina | A |
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| NIGHT BRINGS REPOSE TO OTHERS BUT NOT TO HIM | B |
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| In that still season when the rapid sun | A |
| Drives down the west and daylight flies to greet | C |
| Nations that haply wait his kindling flame | D |
| In some strange land alone her weary feet | C |
| The time worn pilgrim finds with toil fordone | A |
| Yet but the more speeds on her languid frame | D |
| Her solitude the same | D |
| When night has closed around | E |
| Yet has the wanderer found | E |
| A deep though short forgetfulness at last | F |
| Of every woe and every labour past | F |
| But ah my grief that with each moment grows | G |
| As fast and yet more fast | F |
| Day urges on is heaviest at its close | H |
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| When Phoebus rolls his everlasting wheels | I |
| To give night room and from encircling wood | J |
| Broader and broader yet descends the shade | K |
| The labourer arms him for his evening trade | K |
| And all the weight his burthen'd heart conceals | I |
| Lightens with glad discourse or descant rude | L |
| Then spreads his board with food | L |
| Such as the forest hoar | M |
| To our first fathers bore | M |
| By us disdain'd yet praised in hall and bower | N |
| But let who will the cup of joyance pour | M |
| I never knew I will not say of mirth | O |
| But of repose an hour | N |
| When Phoebus leaves and stars salute the earth | O |
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| Yon shepherd when the mighty star of day | P |
| He sees descending to its western bed | Q |
| And the wide Orient all with shade embrown'd | Q |
| Takes his old crook and from the fountain head | Q |
| Green mead and beechen bower pursues his way | P |
| Calling with welcome voice his flocks around | Q |
| Then far from human sound | Q |
| Some desert cave he strows | I |
| With leaves and verdant boughs | I |
| And lays him down without a thought to sleep | R |
| Ah cruel Love then dost thou bid me keep | R |
| My idle chase the airy steps pursuing | S |
| Of her I ever weep | R |
| Who flies me still my endless toil renewing | S |
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| E'en the rude seaman in some cave confined | Q |
| Pillows his head as daylight quits the scene | A |
| On the hard deck with vilest mat o'erspread | Q |
| And when the Sun in orient wave serene | A |
| Bathes his resplendent front and leaves behind | Q |
| Those antique pillars of his boundless bed | Q |
| Forgetfulness has shed | Q |
| O'er man and beast and flower | N |
| Her mild restoring power | N |
| But my determined grief finds no repose | I |
| And every day but aggravates the woes | I |
| Of that remorseless flood that ten long years | I |
| Flowing yet ever flows | I |
| Nor know I what can check its ceaseless tears | I |
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| MERIVALE | T |
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| What time towards the western skies | I |
| The sun with parting radiance flies | I |
| And other climes gilds with expected light | Q |
| Some aged pilgrim dame who strays | I |
| Alone fatigued through pathless ways | I |
| Hastens her step and dreads the approach of night | Q |
| Then the day's journey o'er she'll steep | R |
| Her sense awhile in grateful sleep | R |
| Forgetting all the pain and peril past | Q |
| But I alas find no repose | I |
| Each sun to me brings added woes | I |
| While light's eternal orb rolls from us fast | Q |
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| When the sun's wheels no longer glow | T |
| And hills their lengthen'd shadows throw | T |
| The hind collects his tools and carols gay | P |
| Then spreads his board with frugal fare | U |
| Such as those homely acorns were | N |
| Which all revere yet casting them away | P |
| Let those who pleasure can enjoy | V |
| In cheerfulness their hours employ | V |
| While I of all earth's wretches most unblest | Q |
| Whether the sun fierce darts his beams | I |
| Whether the moon more mildly gleams | I |
| Taste no delight no momentary rest | Q |
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| When the swain views the star of day | Q |
| Quench in the pillowing waves its ray | Q |
| And scatter darkness o'er the eastern skies | I |
| Rising his custom'd crook he takes | I |
| The beech wood fountain plain forsakes | I |
| As calmly homeward with his flock he hies | I |
| Remote from man then on his bed | Q |
| In cot or cave with fresh leaves spread | Q |
| He courts soft slumber and suspense from care | U |
| While thou fell Love bidst me pursue | I |
| That voice those footsteps which subdue | I |
| My soul yet movest not th' obdurate fair | U |
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| Lock'd in some bay to taste repose | I |
| On the hard deck the sailor throws | I |
| His coarse garb o'er him when the car of light | Q |
| Granada with Marocco leaves | I |
| The Pillars famed Iberia's waves | I |
| And the world's hush'd and all its race in night | Q |
| But never will my sorrows cease | I |
| Successive days their sum increase | I |
| Though just ten annual suns have mark'd my pain | A |
| Say to this bosom's poignant grief | W |
| Who shall administer relief | W |
| Say who at length shall free me from my chain | A |
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| And since there's comfort in the strain | A |
| I see at eve along each plain | A |
| And furrow'd hill the unyoked team return | A |
| Why at that hour will no one stay | Q |
| My sighs or bear my yoke away | Q |
| Why bathed in tears must I unceasing mourn | A |
| Wretch that I was to fix my sight | Q |
| First on that face with such delight | Q |
| Till on my thought its charms were strong imprest | Q |
| Which force shall not efface nor art | Q |
| Ere from this frame my soul dispart | Q |
| Nor know I then if passion's votaries rest | Q |
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| O hasty strain devoid of worth | O |
| Sad as the bard who brought thee forth | X |
| Show not thyself be with the world at strife | Y |
| From nook to nook indulge thy grief | W |
| While thy lorn parent seeks relief | W |
| Nursing that amorous flame which feeds his life | Y |
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| NOTT | Q |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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