Sonnet Ccxvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCDDCEFGFEF H IJJIIJJIKLKLMM N| I' pur ascolto e non odo novella | A |
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| HEARING NO TIDINGS OF HER HE BEGINS TO DESPAIR | B |
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| Still do I wait to hear in vain still wait | C |
| Of that sweet enemy I love so well | D |
| What now to think or say I cannot tell | D |
| 'Twixt hope and fear my feelings fluctuate | C |
| The beautiful are still the marks of fate | C |
| And sure her worth and beauty most excel | D |
| What if her God have call'd her hence to dwell | D |
| Where virtue finds a more congenial state | C |
| If so she will illuminate that sphere | E |
| Even as a sun but I 'tis done with me | F |
| I then am nothing have no business here | G |
| O cruel absence why not let me see | F |
| The worst my little tale is told I fear | E |
| My scene is closed ere it accomplish'd be | F |
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| MOREHEAD | H |
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| No tidings yet I listen but in vain | I |
| Of her my beautiful belov d foe | J |
| What or to think or say I nothing know | J |
| So thrills my heart my fond hopes so sustain | I |
| Danger to some has in their beauty lain | I |
| Fairer and chaster she than others show | J |
| God haply seeks to snatch from earth below | J |
| Virtue's best friend that heaven a star may gain | I |
| Or rather sun If what I dread be nigh | K |
| My life its trials long its brief repose | L |
| Are ended all O cruel absence why | K |
| Didst thou remove me from the menaced woes | L |
| My short sad story is already done | M |
| And midway in its course my vain race run | M |
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| MACGREGOR | N |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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