Sestina Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CADEFG GCFAED DGECAF FDAGCE EFCDGA AEGFDC AFD H| Giovane donna sott' un verde lauro | A |
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| THOUGH DESPAIRING OF PITY HE VOWS TO LOVE HER UNTO DEATH | B |
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| A youthful lady 'neath a laurel green | C |
| Was seated fairer colder than the snow | A |
| On which no sun has shone for many years | D |
| Her sweet speech her bright face and flowing hair | E |
| So pleased she yet is present to my eyes | F |
| And aye must be whatever fate prevail | G |
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| These my fond thoughts of her shall fade and fail | G |
| When foliage ceases on the laurel green | C |
| Nor calm can be my heart nor check'd these eyes | F |
| Until the fire shall freeze or burns the snow | A |
| Easier upon my head to count each hair | E |
| Than ere that day shall dawn the parting years | D |
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| But since time flies and roll the rapid years | D |
| And death may in the midst of life assail | G |
| With full brown locks or scant and silver hair | E |
| I still the shade of that sweet laurel green | C |
| Follow through fiercest sun and deepest snow | A |
| Till the last day shall close my weary eyes | F |
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| Oh never sure were seen such brilliant eyes | F |
| In this our age or in the older years | D |
| Which mould and melt me as the sun melts snow | A |
| Into a stream of tears adown the vale | G |
| Watering the hard roots of that laurel green | C |
| Whose boughs are diamonds and gold whose hair | E |
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| I fear that Time my mien may change and hair | E |
| Ere with true pity touch'd shall greet my eyes | F |
| My idol imaged in that laurel green | C |
| For unless memory err through seven long years | D |
| Till now full many a shore has heard my wail | G |
| By night at noon in summer and in snow | A |
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| Thus fire within without the cold cold snow | A |
| Alone with these my thoughts and her bright hair | E |
| Alway and everywhere I bear my ail | G |
| Haply to find some mercy in the eyes | F |
| Of unborn nations and far future years | D |
| If so long flourishes our laurel green | C |
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| The gold and topaz of the sun on snow | A |
| Are shamed by the bright hair above those eyes | F |
| Searing the short green of my life's vain years | D |
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| MACGREGOR | H |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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