Sonnet Cxxxiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDEFGGFHIHIEE J| S' io fossi stato fermo alla spelunca | A |
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| TO ONE WHO DESIRED LATIN VERSE OF HIM | B |
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| Still had I sojourn'd in that Delphic cave | C |
| Where young Apollo prophet first became | D |
| Verona Mantua were not sole in fame | D |
| But Florence too her poet now might have | E |
| But since the waters of that spring no more | F |
| Enrich my land needs must that I pursue | G |
| Some other planet and with sickle new | G |
| Reap from my field of sticks and thorns its store | F |
| Dried is the olive elsewhere turn'd the stream | H |
| Whose source from famed Parnassus was derived | I |
| Whereby of yore it throve in best esteem | H |
| Me fortune thus or fault perchance deprived | I |
| Of all good fruit unless eternal Jove | E |
| Shower on my head some favour from above | E |
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| MACGREGOR | J |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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