Sestina Vii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCADEF FBECDA AFDBCE EACFBD DEBAFC CDFEAB CDF G HIJJJJ KLKMNN FOFOPP AOAOJJ QARASS APAPAA MTMTPP A| Non ha tanti animali il mar fra l' onde | A |
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| HE DESPAIRS OF ESCAPE FROM THE TORMENTS BY WHICH HE IS SURROUNDED | A |
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| Nor Ocean holds such swarms amid his waves | B |
| Not overhead where circles the pale moon | C |
| Were stars so numerous ever seen by night | A |
| Nor dwell so many birds among the woods | D |
| Nor plants so many clothe the field or hill | E |
| As holds my tost heart busy thoughts each eve | F |
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| Each day I hope that this my latest eve | F |
| Shall part from my quick clay the sad salt waves | B |
| And leave me in last sleep on some cold hill | E |
| So many torments man beneath the moon | C |
| Ne'er bore as I have borne this know the woods | D |
| Through which I wander lonely day and night | A |
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| For never have I had a tranquil night | A |
| But ceaseless sighs instead from morn till eve | F |
| Since love first made me tenant of the woods | D |
| The sea ere I can rest shall lose his waves | B |
| The sun his light shall borrow from the moon | C |
| And April flowers be blasted o'er each hill | E |
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| Thus to myself a prey from hill to hill | E |
| Pensive by day I roam and weep at night | A |
| No one state mine but changeful as the moon | C |
| And when I see approaching the brown eve | F |
| Sighs from my bosom from my eyes fall waves | B |
| The herbs to moisten and to move the woods | D |
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| Hostile the cities friendly are the woods | D |
| To thoughts like mine which on this lofty hill | E |
| Mingle their murmur with the moaning waves | B |
| Through the sweet silence of the spangled night | A |
| So that the livelong day I wait the eve | F |
| When the sun sets and rises the fair moon | C |
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| Would like Endymion 'neath the enamour'd moon | C |
| That slumbering I were laid in leafy woods | D |
| And that ere vesper she who makes my eve | F |
| With Love and Luna on that favour'd hill | E |
| Alone would come and stay but one sweet night | A |
| While stood the sun nor sought his western waves | B |
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| Upon the hard waves 'neath the beaming moon | C |
| Song that art born of night amid the woods | D |
| Thou shalt a rich hill see to morrow eve | F |
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| MACGREGOR | G |
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| Count the ocean's finny droves | H |
| Count the twinkling host of stars | I |
| Round the night's pale orb that moves | J |
| Count the groves' wing'd choristers | J |
| Count each verdant blade that grows | J |
| Counted then will be my woes | J |
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| When shall these eyes cease to weep | K |
| When shall this world wearied frame | L |
| Cover'd by the cold sod sleep | K |
| Sure beneath yon planet's beam | M |
| None like me have made such moan | N |
| This to every bower is known | N |
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| Sad my nights from morn till eve | F |
| Tenanting the woods I sigh | O |
| But ere I shall cease to grieve | F |
| Ocean's vast bed shall be dry | O |
| Suns their light from moons shall gain | P |
| And spring wither on each plain | P |
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| Pensive weeping night and day | A |
| From this shore to that I fly | O |
| Changeful as the lunar ray | A |
| And when evening veils the sky | O |
| Then my tears might swell the floods | J |
| Then my sighs might bow the woods | J |
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| Towns I hate the shades I love | Q |
| For relief to yon green height | A |
| Where the rill resounds I rove | R |
| At the grateful calm of night | A |
| There I wait the day's decline | S |
| For the welcome moon to shine | S |
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| Oh that in some lone retreat | A |
| Like Endymion I were lain | P |
| And that she who rules my fate | A |
| There one night to stay would deign | P |
| Never from his billowy bed | A |
| More might Phoebus lift his head | A |
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| Song that on the wood hung stream | M |
| In the silent hour wert born | T |
| Witness'd but by Cynthia's beam | M |
| Soon as breaks to morrow's morn | T |
| Thou shalt seek a glorious plain | P |
| There with Laura to remain | P |
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| DACRE | A |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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