Sonnet Xl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCCBBCCBDEDEAA F| Se mai foco per foco non si spense | A |
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| HIS HEART IS ALL IN FLAMES BUT HIS TONGUE IS MUTE IN HER PRESENCE | A |
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| If fire was never yet by fire subdued | B |
| If never flood fell dry by frequent rain | C |
| But like to like if each by other gain | C |
| And contraries are often mutual food | B |
| Love who our thoughts controllest in each mood | B |
| Through whom two bodies thus one soul sustain | C |
| How why in her with such unusual strain | C |
| Make the want less by wishes long renewed | B |
| Perchance as falleth the broad Nile from high | D |
| Deafening with his great voice all nature round | E |
| And as the sun still dazzles the fix'd eye | D |
| So with itself desire in discord found | E |
| Loses in its impetuous object force | A |
| As the too frequent spur oft checks the course | A |
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| MACGREGOR | F |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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