Sonnet Cxix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDECFGGFHIHIJJ K| Questa umil fera un cor di tigre o d' orsa | A |
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| HE PRAYS HER EITHER TO WELCOME OR DISMISS HIM AT ONCE | B |
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| Fiercer than tiger savager than bear | C |
| In human guise an angel form appears | D |
| Who between fear and hope from smiles to tears | E |
| So tortures me that doubt becomes despair | C |
| Ere long if she nor welcomes me nor frees | F |
| But as her wont between the two retains | G |
| By the sweet poison circling through my veins | G |
| My life O Love will soon be on its lees | F |
| No longer can my virtue worn and frail | H |
| With such severe vicissitudes contend | I |
| At once which burn and freeze make red and pale | H |
| By flight it hopes at length its grief to end | I |
| As one who hourly failing feels death nigh | J |
| Powerless he is indeed who cannot even die | J |
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| MACGREGOR | K |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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