Sonnet Ccxvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCDDCEFFEGG G| La sera desiar odiar l' aurora | A |
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| CONTRARY TO THE WONT OF LOVERS HE PREFERS MORN TO EVE | B |
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| Tranquil and happy loves in this agree | C |
| The evening to desire and morning hate | D |
| On me at eve redoubled sorrows wait | D |
| Morning is still the happier hour for me | C |
| For then my sun and Nature's oft I see | C |
| Opening at once the orient's rosy gate | D |
| So match'd in beauty and in lustre great | D |
| Heaven seems enamour'd of our earth to be | C |
| As when in verdant leaf the dear boughs burst | E |
| Whose roots have since so centred in my core | F |
| Another than myself is cherish'd more | F |
| Thus the two hours contrast day's last and first | E |
| Reason it is who calms me to desire | G |
| And fear and hate who fiercer feed my fire | G |
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| MACGREGOR | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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