Sonnet Clvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCDDCECFECF F GCCGGCCGCCCCFF G| Passa la nave mia colma d' oblio | A |
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| UNDER THE FIGURE OF A TEMPEST TOSSED VESSEL HE DESCRIBES HIS OWN SAD STATE | B |
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| My bark deep laden with oblivion rides | C |
| O'er boisterous waves through winter's midnight gloom | D |
| 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis while in room | D |
| Of pilot Love mine enemy presides | C |
| At every oar a guilty fancy bides | C |
| Holding at nought the tempest and the tomb | D |
| A moist eternal wind the sails consume | D |
| Of sighs of hopes and of desire besides | C |
| A shower of tears a fog of chill disdain | E |
| Bathes and relaxes the o'er wearied cords | C |
| With error and with ignorance entwined | F |
| My two loved lights their wonted aid restrain | E |
| Reason or Art storm quell'd no help affords | C |
| Nor hope remains the wish'd for port to find | F |
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| CHARLEMONT | F |
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| My lethe freighted bark with reckless prore | G |
| Cleaves the rough sea 'neath wintry midnight skies | C |
| My old foe at the helm our compass eyes | C |
| With Scylla and Charybdis on each shore | G |
| A prompt and daring thought at every oar | G |
| Which equally the storm and death defies | C |
| While a perpetual humid wind of sighs | C |
| Of hopes and of desires its light sail tore | G |
| Bathe and relax its worn and weary shrouds | C |
| Which ignorance with error intertwines | C |
| Torrents of tears of scorn and anger clouds | C |
| Hidden the twin dear lights which were my signs | C |
| Reason and Art amid the waves lie dead | F |
| And hope of gaining port is almost fled | F |
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| MACGREGOR | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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