Canzone Xiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCADDAEFGBBH IIJBKJLLMNNM OOPQQPRRSTOS RRURRUOORBBR DDVWWVXXDYDD ZA2PB2C2PD2D2RAAR AAE2F2F2E2 G2| Se 'l pensier che mi strugge | A |
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| HE SEEKS IN VAIN TO MITIGATE HIS WOE | B |
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| Oh that my cheeks were taught | C |
| By the fond wasting thought | C |
| To wear such hues as could its influence speak | A |
| Then the dear scornful fair | D |
| Might all my ardour share | D |
| And where Love slumbers now he might awake | A |
| Less oft the hill and mead | E |
| My wearied feet should tread | F |
| Less oft perhaps these eyes with tears should stream | G |
| If she who cold as snow | B |
| With equal fire would glow | B |
| She who dissolves me and converts to flame | H |
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| Since Love exerts his sway | I |
| And bears my sense away | I |
| I chant uncouth and inharmonious songs | J |
| Nor leaves nor blossoms show | B |
| Nor rind upon the bough | K |
| What is the nature that thereto belongs | J |
| Love and those beauteous eyes | L |
| Beneath whose shade he lies | L |
| Discover all the heart can comprehend | M |
| When vented are my cares | N |
| In loud complaints and tears | N |
| These harm myself and others those offend | M |
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| Sweet lays of sportive vein | O |
| Which help'd me to sustain | O |
| Love's first assault the only arms I bore | P |
| This flinty breast say who | Q |
| Shall once again subdue | Q |
| That I with song may soothe me as before | P |
| Some power appears to trace | R |
| Within me Laura's face | R |
| Whispers her name and straight in verse I strive | S |
| To picture her again | T |
| But the fond effort's vain | O |
| Me of my solace thus doth Fate deprive | S |
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| E'en as some babe unties | R |
| Its tongue in stammering guise | R |
| Who cannot speak yet will not silence keep | U |
| So fond words I essay | R |
| And listen'd be the lay | R |
| By my fair foe ere in the tomb I sleep | U |
| But if of beauty vain | O |
| She treats me with disdain | O |
| Do thou O verdant shore attend my sighs | R |
| Let them so freely flow | B |
| That all the world may know | B |
| My sorrow thou at least didst not despise | R |
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| And well art thou aware | D |
| That never foot so fair | D |
| The soil e'er press'd as that which trod thee late | V |
| My sunk soul and worn heart | W |
| Now seek thee to impart | W |
| The secret griefs that on my passion wait | V |
| If on thy margent green | X |
| Or 'midst thy flowers were seen | X |
| Some traces of her footsteps lingering there | D |
| My wearied life 'twould cheer | Y |
| Bitter'd with many a tear | D |
| Ah now what means are left to soothe my care | D |
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| Where'er I bend mine eye | Z |
| What sweet serenity | A2 |
| I feel to think here Laura shone of yore | P |
| Each plant and scented bloom | B2 |
| I gather seems to come | C2 |
| From where she wander'd on the custom'd shore | P |
| Ofttimes in this retreat | D2 |
| A fresh and fragrant seat | D2 |
| She found at least so fancy's vision shows | R |
| And never let truth seek | A |
| Th' illusion dear to break | A |
| O spirit blest from whom such magic flows | R |
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| To thee my simple song | A |
| No polish doth belong | A |
| Thyself art conscious of thy little worth | E2 |
| Solicit not renown | F2 |
| Throughout the busy town | F2 |
| But dwell within the shade that gave thee birth | E2 |
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| NOTT | G2 |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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