Sonnet Cxvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEFFGGHI A J AKKAEEEELAAMNN O| Non Tesin Po Varo Arno Adige e Tebro | A |
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| HE EXTOLS THE LAUREL AND ITS FAVOURITE STREAM | B |
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| Not all the streams that water the bright earth | C |
| Not all the trees to which its breast gives birth | C |
| Can cooling drop or healing balm impart | D |
| To slack the fire which scorches my sad heart | D |
| As one fair brook which ever weeps with me | E |
| Or which I praise and sing as one dear tree | E |
| This only help I find amid Love's strife | F |
| Wherefore it me behoves to live my life | F |
| In arms which else from me too rapid goes | G |
| Thus on fresh shore the lovely laurel grows | G |
| Who planted it his high and graceful thought | H |
| 'Neath its sweet shade to Sorga's murmurs wrote | I |
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| MACGREGOR | A |
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| IMITATION | J |
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| Nor Arne nor Mincius nor stately Tiber | A |
| Sebethus nor the flood into whose streams | K |
| He fell who burnt the world with borrow'd beams | K |
| Gold rolling Tagus Munda famous Iber | A |
| Sorgue Rhone Loire Garron nor proud bank'd Seine | E |
| Peneus Phasis Xanthus humble Ladon | E |
| Nor she whose nymphs excel her who loved Adon | E |
| Fair Tamesis nor Ister large nor Rhine | E |
| Euphrates Tigris Indus Hermus Gange | L |
| Pearly Hydaspes serpent like Meander | A |
| The gulf bereft sweet Hero her Leander | A |
| Nile that far far his hidden head doth range | M |
| Have ever had so rare a cause of praise | N |
| As Ora where this northern Phoenix stays | N |
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| DRUMMOND | O |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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