Sonnet Lvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCDDCEFEFGH H IAAIJAAIKLMKLM M| Per mirar Policleto a prova fiso | A |
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| ON THE PORTRAIT OF LAURA PAINTED BY SIMON MEMMI | B |
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| Had Policletus seen her or the rest | C |
| Who in past time won honour in this art | D |
| A thousand years had but the meaner part | D |
| Shown of the beauty which o'ercame my breast | C |
| But Simon sure in Paradise the blest | C |
| Whence came this noble lady of my heart | D |
| Saw her and took this wond'rous counterpart | D |
| Which should on earth her lovely face attest | C |
| The work indeed was one in heaven alone | E |
| To be conceived not wrought by fellow men | F |
| Over whose souls the body's veil is thrown | E |
| 'Twas done of grace and fail'd his pencil when | F |
| To earth he turn'd our cold and heat to bear | G |
| And felt that his own eyes but mortal were | H |
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| MACGREGOR | H |
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| Had Polycletus in proud rivalry | I |
| On her his model gazed a thousand years | A |
| Not half the beauty to my soul appears | A |
| In fatal conquest e'er could he descry | I |
| But Simon thou wast then in heaven's blest sky | J |
| Ere she my fair one left her native spheres | A |
| To trace a loveliness this world reveres | A |
| Was thus thy task from heaven's reality | I |
| Yes thine the portrait heaven alone could wake | K |
| This clime nor earth such beauty could conceive | L |
| Where droops the spirit 'neath its earthly shrine | M |
| The soul's reflected grace was thine to take | K |
| Which not on earth thy painting could achieve | L |
| Where mortal limits all the powers confine | M |
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| WOLLASTON | M |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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