Sonnet Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ J KLLKKLLKMNOMDO H EHHEHJJHHJPHJP QQuel ch' infinita providenza ed arte | A |
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HE CELEBRATES THE BIRTHPLACE OF LAURA | B |
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He that with wisdom goodness power divine | C |
Did ample Nature's perfect book design | C |
Adorn'd this beauteous world and those above | D |
Kindled fierce Mars and soften'd milder Jove | D |
When seen on earth the shadows to fulfill | E |
Of the less volume which conceal'd his will | E |
Took John and Peter from their homely care | F |
And made them pillars of his temple fair | F |
Nor in imperial Rome would He be born | G |
Whom servile Judah yet received with scorn | G |
E'en Bethlehem could her infant King disown | H |
And the rude manger was his early throne | H |
Victorious sufferings did his pomp display | I |
Nor other chariot or triumphal way | I |
At once by Heaven's example and decree | J |
Such honour waits on such humility | J |
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BASIL KENNET | J |
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The High Eternal in whose works supreme | K |
The Master's vast creative power hath spoke | L |
At whose command each circling sphere awoke | L |
Jove mildly rose and Mars with fiercer beam | K |
To earth He came to ratify the scheme | K |
Reveal'd to us through prophecy's dark cloak | L |
To sound redemption speak man's fallen yoke | L |
He chose the humblest for that heavenly theme | K |
But He conferr'd not on imperial Rome | M |
His birth's renown He chose a lowlier sky | N |
To stand through Him the proudest spot on earth | O |
And now doth shine within its humble home | M |
A star that doth each other so outvie | D |
That grateful nature hails its lovely birth | O |
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WOLLASTON | H |
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Who show'd such infinite providence and skill | E |
In his eternal government divine | H |
Who launch'd the spheres gave sun and moon to shine | H |
And brightest wonders the dark void to fill | E |
On earth who came the Scriptures to maintain | H |
Which for long years the truth had buried yet | J |
Took John and Peter from the fisher's net | J |
And gave to each his part in the heavenly reign | H |
He for his birth fair Rome preferr'd not then | H |
But lowly Bethlehem thus o'er proudest state | J |
He ever loves humility to raise | P |
Now rises from small spot like sun again | H |
Whom Nature hails the place grows bright and great | J |
Which birth so heavenly to our earth displays | P |
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MACGREGOR | Q |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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