Sonnet Lix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BBCCDDEEFFGGHH I| Se al principio risponde il fine e 'l mezzo | A |
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| IF HIS PASSION STILL INCREASE HE MUST SOON DIE | B |
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| If of this fourteenth year wherein I sigh | B |
| The end and middle with its opening vie | B |
| Nor air nor shade can give me now release | C |
| I feel mine ardent passion so increase | C |
| For Love with whom my thought no medium knows | D |
| Beneath whose yoke I never find repose | D |
| So rules me through these eyes on mine own ill | E |
| Too often turn'd but half remains to kill | E |
| Thus day by day I feel me sink apace | F |
| And yet so secretly none else may trace | F |
| Save she whose glances my fond bosom tear | G |
| Scarcely till now this load of life I bear | G |
| Nor know how long with me will be her stay | H |
| For death draws near and hastens life away | H |
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| MACGREGOR | I |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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