Sonnet Cxxxix. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CAACDEEDFGAFGA H| O Invidia nemica di virtute | A |
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| ENVY MAY DISTURB BUT CANNOT DESTROY HIS HOPE | B |
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| O deadly Envy virtue's constant foe | C |
| With good and lovely eager to contest | A |
| Stealthily by what way in that fair breast | A |
| Hast entrance found by what arts changed it so | C |
| Thence by the roots my weal hast thou uptorn | D |
| Too blest in love hast shown me to that fair | E |
| Who welcomed once my chaste and humble prayer | E |
| But seems to treat me now with hate and scorn | D |
| But though you may by acts severe and ill | F |
| Sigh at my good and smile at my distress | G |
| You cannot change for me a single thought | A |
| Not though a thousand times each day she kill | F |
| Can I or hope in her or love her less | G |
| For though she scare Love confidence has taught | A |
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| MACGREGOR | H |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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