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 monte | A |
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| DISTANCE AND SOLITUDE | B |
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| From hill to hill I roam from thought to thought | C |
| With Love my guide the beaten path I fly | D |
| For there in vain the tranquil life is sought | C |
| If 'mid the waste well forth a lonely rill | E |
| Or deep embosom'd a low valley lie | D |
| In its calm shade my trembling heart's still | E |
| And there if Love so will | E |
| I smile or weep or fondly hope or fear | F |
| While on my varying brow that speaks the soul | G |
| The wild emotions roll | G |
| Now dark now bright as shifting skies appear | F |
| That whosoe'er has proved the lover's state | H |
| Would say He feels the flame nor knows his future fate | H |
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| On mountains high in forests drear and wide | I |
| I find repose and from the throng'd resort | J |
| Of man turn fearfully my eyes aside | I |
| At each lone step thoughts ever new arise | K |
| Of her I love who oft with cruel sport | J |
| Will mock the pangs I bear the tears the sighs | K |
| Yet e'en these ills I prize | K |
| Though bitter sweet nor would they were removed | L |
| For my heart whispers me Love yet has power | M |
| To grant a happier hour | M |
| Perchance though self despised thou yet art loved | N |
| E'en then my breast a passing sigh will heave | O |
| Ah when or how may I a hope so wild believe | O |
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| Where shadows of high rocking pines dark wave | P |
| I stay my footsteps and on some rude stone | Q |
| With thought intense her beauteous face engrave | P |
| Roused from the trance my bosom bathed I find | R |
| With tears and cry Ah whither thus alone | Q |
| Hast thou far wander'd and whom left behind | R |
| But as with fixed mind | R |
| On this fair image I impassion'd rest | S |
| And viewing her forget awhile my ills | T |
| Love my rapt fancy fills | T |
| In its own error sweet the soul is blest | S |
| While all around so bright the visions glide | I |
| Oh might the cheat endure I ask not aught beside | I |
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| Her form portray'd within the lucid stream | U |
| Will oft appear or on the verdant lawn | V |
| Or glossy beech or fleecy cloud will gleam | U |
| So lovely fair that Leda's self might say | W |
| Her Helen sinks eclipsed as at the dawn | V |
| A star when cover'd by the solar ray | W |
| And as o'er wilds I stray | W |
| Where the eye nought but savage nature meets | X |
| There Fancy most her brightest tints employs | Y |
| But when rude truth destroys | Y |
| The loved illusion of those dreamed sweets | X |
| I sit me down on the cold rugged stone | Q |
| Less coid less dead than I and think and weep alone | Q |
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| Where the huge mountain rears his brow sublime | Z |
| On which no neighbouring height its shadow flings | A2 |
| Led by desire intense the steep I climb | Z |
| And tracing in the boundless space each woe | B2 |
| Whose sad remembrance my torn bosom wrings | A2 |
| Tears that bespeak the heart o'erfraught will flow | B2 |
| While viewing all below | B2 |
| From me I cry what worlds of air divide | I |
| The beauteous form still absent and still near | F |
| Then chiding soft the tear | C2 |
| I whisper low haply she too has sigh'd | I |
| That thou art far away a thought so sweet | D2 |
| Awhile my labouring soul will of its burthen cheat | D2 |
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| Go thou my song beyond that Alpine bound | E2 |
| Where the pure smiling heavens are most serene | F2 |
| There by a murmuring stream may I be found | E2 |
| Whose gentle airs around | E2 |
| Waft grateful odours from the laurel green | F2 |
| Nought but my empty form roams here unblest | E2 |
| There dwells my heart with her who steals it from my breast | E2 |
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| DACRE | C2 |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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