Sonnet Xx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CADEFGAEHIJJKL M| Se l' onorata fronde che prescrive | A |
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| TO STRAMAZZO OF PERUGIA WHO INVITED HIM TO WRITE POETRY | B |
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| If the world honour'd leaf whose green defies | C |
| The wrath of Heaven when thunders mighty Jove | A |
| Had not to me prohibited the crown | D |
| Which wreathes of wont the gifted poet's brow | E |
| I were a friend of these your idols too | F |
| Whom our vile age so shamelessly ignores | G |
| But that sore insult keeps me now aloof | A |
| From the first patron of the olive bough | E |
| For Ethiop earth beneath its tropic sun | H |
| Ne'er burn'd with such fierce heat as I with rage | I |
| At losing thing so comely and beloved | J |
| Resort then to some calmer fuller fount | J |
| For of all moisture mine is drain'd and dry | K |
| Save that which falleth from mine eyes in tears | L |
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| MACGREGOR | M |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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