Sestina V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BACDEF FBEADC CFDBAE ECAFBD DEBCFA ADFECB ADF G| Alia dolce ombra de le belle frondi | A |
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| HE TELLS THE STORY OF HIS LOVE RESOLVING HENCEFORTH TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO GOD | A |
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| Beneath the pleasant shade of beauteous leaves | B |
| I ran for shelter from a cruel light | A |
| E'en here below that burnt me from high heaven | C |
| When the last snow had ceased upon the hills | D |
| And amorous airs renew'd the sweet spring time | E |
| And on the upland flourish'd herbs and boughs | F |
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| Ne'er did the world behold such graceful boughs | F |
| Nor ever wind rustled so verdant leaves | B |
| As were by me beheld in that young time | E |
| So that though fearful of the ardent light | A |
| I sought not refuge from the shadowing hills | D |
| But of the plant accepted most in heaven | C |
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| A laurel then protected from that heaven | C |
| Whence oft enamour'd with its lovely boughs | F |
| A roamer I have been through woods o'er hills | D |
| But never found I other trunk nor leaves | B |
| Like these so honour'd with supernal light | A |
| Which changed not qualities with changing time | E |
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| Wherefore each hour more firm from time to time | E |
| Following where I heard my call from heaven | C |
| And guided ever by a soft clear light | A |
| I turn'd devoted still to those first boughs | F |
| Or when on earth are scatter'd the sere leaves | B |
| Or when the sun restored makes green the hills | D |
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| The woods the rocks the fields the floods and hills | D |
| All that is made are conquer'd changed by time | E |
| And therefore ask I pardon of those leaves | B |
| If after many years revolving heaven | C |
| Sway'd me to flee from those entangling boughs | F |
| When I begun to see its better light | A |
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| So dear to me at first was the sweet light | A |
| That willingly I pass'd o'er difficult hills | D |
| But to be nearer those beloved boughs | F |
| Now shortening life the apt place and full time | E |
| Show me another path to mount to heaven | C |
| And to make fruit not merely flowers and leaves | B |
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| Other love other leaves and other light | A |
| Other ascent to heaven by other hills | D |
| I seek in sooth 'tis time and other boughs | F |
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| MACGREGOR | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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