To Laura In Death. Ballata I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEFGAAHHIIJJAAKK G LDLDMNMNNKAAK A| Amor quando fioria | A |
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| HIS GRIEF AT SURVIVING HER IS MITIGATED BY THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT SHE NOW KNOWS HIS HEART | B |
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| Yes Love at that propitious time | C |
| When hope was in its bloomy prime | C |
| And when I vainly fancied nigh | D |
| The meed of all my constancy | E |
| Then sudden she of whom I sought | F |
| Compassion from my sight was caught | G |
| O ruthless Death O life severe | A |
| The one has sunk me deep in care | A |
| And darken'd cruelly my day | H |
| That shone with hope's enlivening ray | H |
| The other adverse to my will | I |
| Doth here on earth detain me still | I |
| And interdicts me to pursue | J |
| Her who from all its scenes withdrew | J |
| Yet in my heart resides the fair | A |
| For ever ever present there | A |
| Who well perceives the ills that wait | K |
| Upon my wretched mortal state | K |
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| NOTT | G |
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| Yes Love while hope still bloom'd with me in pride | L |
| While seem'd of all my faith the guerdon nigh | D |
| She upon whom for mercy I relied | L |
| Was ravish'd from my doting desolate eye | D |
| O ruthless Death O life unwelcome this | M |
| Plunged me in deepest woe | N |
| And rudely crush'd my every hope of bliss | M |
| Against my will that keeps me here below | N |
| Who else would yearn to go | N |
| And join the sainted fair who left us late | K |
| Yet present every hour | A |
| In my heart's core there wields she her old power | A |
| And knows whate'er my life its every state | K |
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| MACGREGOR | A |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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