Sonnet Clxxxvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCEFFEGHIGHI J KLLKKLLKMNNMOO K| Quando 'l sol bagna in mur l' aurato carro | A |
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| HIS NIGHTS ARE LIKE HIS DAYS PASSED IN TORMENT | B |
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| When in the sea sinks the sun's golden light | C |
| And on my mind and nature darkness lies | D |
| With the pale moon faint stars and clouded skies | D |
| I pass a weary and a painful night | C |
| To her who hears me not I then rehearse | E |
| My sad life's fruitless toils early and late | F |
| And with the world and with my gloomy fate | F |
| With Love with Laura and myself converse | E |
| Sleep is forbid me I have no repose | G |
| But sighs and groans instead till morn returns | H |
| And tears with which mine eyes a sad heart feeds | I |
| Then comes the dawn the thick air clearer grows | G |
| But not my soul the sun which in it burns | H |
| Alone can cure the grief his fierce warmth breeds | I |
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| NOTT | J |
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| When Phoebus lashes to the western main | K |
| His fiery steeds and shades the lurid air | L |
| Grief shades my soul my night is spent in care | L |
| Yon moon yon stars yon heaven begin my pain | K |
| Wretch that I am full oft I urge in vain | K |
| To heedless beings all those pangs I bear | L |
| Of the false world of an unpitying fair | L |
| Of Love and fickle fortune I complain | K |
| From eve's last glance till morning's earliest ray | M |
| Sleep shuns my couch rest quits my tearful eye | N |
| And my rack'd breast heaves many a plaintive sigh | N |
| Then bright Aurora cheers the rising day | M |
| But cheers not me for to my sorrowing heart | O |
| One sun alone can cheering light impart | O |
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| ANON | K |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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