Canzone Xvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCEDEEFGGFHH IJIKJKKLMMNOO PQPRQRRSTTSII UVUWVWWXYYXQQ ZA2ZB2A2B2B2IFC2ID2D 2 E2F2E2E2F2E2E2 C2

Di pensier in pensier di monte in monteA
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DISTANCE AND SOLITUDEB
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From hill to hill I roam from thought to thoughtC
With Love my guide the beaten path I flyD
For there in vain the tranquil life is soughtC
If 'mid the waste well forth a lonely rillE
Or deep embosom'd a low valley lieD
In its calm shade my trembling heart's stillE
And there if Love so willE
I smile or weep or fondly hope or fearF
While on my varying brow that speaks the soulG
The wild emotions rollG
Now dark now bright as shifting skies appearF
That whosoe'er has proved the lover's stateH
Would say He feels the flame nor knows his future fateH
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On mountains high in forests drear and wideI
I find repose and from the throng'd resortJ
Of man turn fearfully my eyes asideI
At each lone step thoughts ever new ariseK
Of her I love who oft with cruel sportJ
Will mock the pangs I bear the tears the sighsK
Yet e'en these ills I prizeK
Though bitter sweet nor would they were removedL
For my heart whispers me Love yet has powerM
To grant a happier hourM
Perchance though self despised thou yet art lovedN
E'en then my breast a passing sigh will heaveO
Ah when or how may I a hope so wild believeO
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Where shadows of high rocking pines dark waveP
I stay my footsteps and on some rude stoneQ
With thought intense her beauteous face engraveP
Roused from the trance my bosom bathed I findR
With tears and cry Ah whither thus aloneQ
Hast thou far wander'd and whom left behindR
But as with fixed mindR
On this fair image I impassion'd restS
And viewing her forget awhile my illsT
Love my rapt fancy fillsT
In its own error sweet the soul is blestS
While all around so bright the visions glideI
Oh might the cheat endure I ask not aught besideI
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Her form portray'd within the lucid streamU
Will oft appear or on the verdant lawnV
Or glossy beech or fleecy cloud will gleamU
So lovely fair that Leda's self might sayW
Her Helen sinks eclipsed as at the dawnV
A star when cover'd by the solar rayW
And as o'er wilds I strayW
Where the eye nought but savage nature meetsX
There Fancy most her brightest tints employsY
But when rude truth destroysY
The loved illusion of those dreamed sweetsX
I sit me down on the cold rugged stoneQ
Less coid less dead than I and think and weep aloneQ
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Where the huge mountain rears his brow sublimeZ
On which no neighbouring height its shadow flingsA2
Led by desire intense the steep I climbZ
And tracing in the boundless space each woeB2
Whose sad remembrance my torn bosom wringsA2
Tears that bespeak the heart o'erfraught will flowB2
While viewing all belowB2
From me I cry what worlds of air divideI
The beauteous form still absent and still nearF
Then chiding soft the tearC2
I whisper low haply she too has sigh'dI
That thou art far away a thought so sweetD2
Awhile my labouring soul will of its burthen cheatD2
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Go thou my song beyond that Alpine boundE2
Where the pure smiling heavens are most sereneF2
There by a murmuring stream may I be foundE2
Whose gentle airs aroundE2
Waft grateful odours from the laurel greenF2
Nought but my empty form roams here unblestE2
There dwells my heart with her who steals it from my breastE2
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DACREC2

Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)



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