Canzone Vii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDECEEFF GHGHIJIIKK LMLMNLNNOO PAQARPRRSS TUTUVTVVAA W| Lasso me ch i' non so in qual parte pieghi | A |
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| HE WOULD CONSOLE HIMSELF WITH SONG BUT IS CONSTRAINED TO WEEP | B |
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| Me wretched for I know not whither tend | C |
| The hopes which have so long my heart betray'd | D |
| If none there be who will compassion lend | C |
| Wherefore to Heaven these often prayers for aid | D |
| But if belike not yet denied to me | E |
| That ere my own life end | C |
| These sad notes mute shall be | E |
| Let not my Lord conceive the wish too free | E |
| Yet once amid sweet flowers to touch the string | F |
| Reason and right it is that love I sing | F |
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| Reason indeed there were at last that I | G |
| Should sing since I have sigh'd so long and late | H |
| But that for me 'tis vain such art to try | G |
| Brief pleasures balancing with sorrows great | H |
| Could I by some sweet verse but cause to shine | I |
| Glad wonder and new joy | J |
| Within those eyes divine | I |
| Bliss o'er all other lovers then were mine | I |
| But more if frankly fondly I could say | K |
| My lady asks I therefore wake the lay | K |
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| Delicious dangerous thoughts that to begin | L |
| A theme so high have gently led me thus | M |
| You know I ne'er can hope to pass within | L |
| Our lady's heart so strongly steel'd from us | M |
| She will not deign to look on thing so low | N |
| Nor may our language win | L |
| Aught of her care since Heaven ordains it so | N |
| And vainly to oppose must irksome grow | N |
| Even as I my heart to stone would turn | O |
| So in my verse would I be rude and stern | O |
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| What do I say where am I My own heart | P |
| And its misplaced desires alone deceive | A |
| Though my view travel utmost heaven athwart | Q |
| No planet there condemns me thus to grieve | A |
| Why if the body's veil obscure my sight | R |
| Blame to the stars impart | P |
| Or other things as bright | R |
| Within me reigns my tyrant day and night | R |
| Since for his triumph me a captive took | S |
| Her lovely face and lustrous eyes' dear look | S |
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| While all things else in Nature's boundless reign | T |
| Came good from the Eternal Master's mould | U |
| I look for such desert in me in vain | T |
| Me the light wounds that I around behold | U |
| To the true splendour if I turn at last | V |
| My eye would shrink in pain | T |
| Whose own fault o'er it cast | V |
| Such film and not the fatal day long past | V |
| When first her angel beauty met my view | A |
| In the sweet season when my life was new | A |
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| MACGREGOR | W |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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