Sonnet Cxlv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCEECFCCFCC G| Amor mi sprona in un tempo ed affrena | A |
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| HE HEARS THE VOICE OF REASON BUT CANNOT OBEY | B |
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| Love in one instant spurs me and restrains | C |
| Assures and frightens freezes me and burns | D |
| Smiles now and scowls now summons me and spurns | D |
| In hope now holds me plunges now in pains | C |
| Now high now low my weary heart he hurls | C |
| Until fond passion loses quite the path | E |
| And highest pleasure seems to stir but wrath | E |
| My harass'd mind on such strange errors feeds | C |
| A friendly thought there points the proper track | F |
| Not of such grief as from the full eye breaks | C |
| To go where soon it hopes to be at ease | C |
| But as if greater power thence turn'd it back | F |
| Despite itself another way it takes | C |
| And to its own slow death and mine agrees | C |
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| MACGREGOR | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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