Sestina Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFBG GCBDFE EGFCDB BEDGCF FBCEGD DFGBEC CDG H| Chi fermato di menar sua vita | A |
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| HE PRAYS GOD TO GUIDE HIS FRAIL BARK TO A SAFE PORT | B |
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| Who is resolved to venture his vain life | C |
| On the deceitful wave and 'mid the rocks | D |
| Alone unfearing death in little bark | E |
| Can never be far distant from his end | F |
| Therefore betimes he should return to port | B |
| While to the helm yet answers his true sail | G |
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| The gentle breezes to which helm and sail | G |
| I trusted entering on this amorous life | C |
| And hoping soon to make some better port | B |
| Have led me since amid a thousand rocks | D |
| And the sure causes of my mournful end | F |
| Are not alone without but in my bark | E |
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| Long cabin'd and confined in this blind bark | E |
| I wander'd looking never at the sail | G |
| Which prematurely bore me to my end | F |
| Till He was pleased who brought me into life | C |
| So far to call me back from those sharp rocks | D |
| That distantly at last was seen my port | B |
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| As lights at midnight seen in any port | B |
| Sometimes from the main sea by passing bark | E |
| Save when their ray is lost 'mid storms or rocks | D |
| So I too from above the swollen sail | G |
| Saw the sure colours of that other life | C |
| And could not help but sigh to reach my end | F |
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| Not that I yet am certain of that end | F |
| For wishing with the dawn to be in port | B |
| Is a long voyage for so short a life | C |
| And then I fear to find me in frail bark | E |
| Beyond my wishes full its every sail | G |
| With the strong wind which drove me on those rocks | D |
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| Escape I living from these doubtful rocks | D |
| Or if my exile have but a fair end | F |
| How happy shall I be to furl my sail | G |
| And my last anchor cast in some sure port | B |
| But ah I burn and as some blazing bark | E |
| So hard to me to leave my wonted life | C |
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| Lord of my end and master of my life | C |
| Before I lose my bark amid the rocks | D |
| Direct to a good port its harass'd sail | G |
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| MACGREGOR | H |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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