To Laura In Death. Canzone I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTJUVW XYNZA2CZB2C2D2E2 F2ZG2H2I2B2J2K2L2ZM2 A2HN2B2O2P2ZZQ2F2R2 S2P2T2ZU2ZZQ2P2ZV2 NZW2ZD2X2Y2A2Z2A3B3Z P2L2ZI Z| Che debb' io far che mi consigli Amore | A |
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| HE ASKS COUNSEL OF LOVE WHETHER HE SHOULD FOLLOW LAURA OR STILL ENDURE EXISTENCE | B |
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| What should I do what Love dost thou advise | C |
| Full time it is to die | D |
| And longer than I wish have I delay'd | E |
| My mistress is no more and with her gone my heart | F |
| To follow her I must need | G |
| Break short the course of my afflictive years | H |
| To view her here below | I |
| I ne'er can hope and irksome 'tis to wait | J |
| Since that my every joy | K |
| By her departure unto tears is turn'd | L |
| Of all its sweets my life has been deprived | M |
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| Thou Love dost feel therefore to thee I plain | N |
| How grievous is my loss | O |
| I know my sorrows grieve and weigh thee down | P |
| E'en as our common cause for on one rock | Q |
| We both have wreck'd our bark | R |
| And in one instant was its sun obscured | S |
| What genius can with words | T |
| Rightly describe my lamentable state | J |
| Ah blind ungrateful world | U |
| Thou hast indeed just cause with me to mourn | V |
| That beauty thou didst hold with her is fled | W |
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| Fall'n is thy glory and thou seest it not | X |
| Unworthy thou with her | Y |
| While here she dwelt acquaintance to maintain | N |
| Or to be trodden by her saintly feet | Z |
| For that which is so fair | A2 |
| Should with its presence decorate the skies | C |
| But I a wretch who reft | Z |
| Of her prize nor myself nor mortal life | B2 |
| Recall her with my tears | C2 |
| This only of my hope's vast sum remains | D2 |
| And this alone doth still support me here | E2 |
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| Ah me her charming face is earth become | F2 |
| Which wont unto our thought | Z |
| To picture heaven and happiness above | G2 |
| Her viewless form inhabits paradise | H2 |
| Divested of that veil | I2 |
| Which shadow'd while below her bloom of life | B2 |
| Once more to put it on | J2 |
| And never then to cast it off again | K2 |
| When so much more divine | L2 |
| And glorious render'd 'twill by us be view'd | Z |
| As mortal beauty to eternal yields | M2 |
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| More bright than ever and a lovelier fair | A2 |
| Before me she appears | H |
| Where most she's conscious that her sight will please | N2 |
| This is one pillar that sustains my life | B2 |
| The other her dear name | O2 |
| That to my heart sounds so delightfully | P2 |
| But tracing in my mind | Z |
| That she who form'd my choicest hope is dead | Z |
| E'en in her blossom'd prime | Q2 |
| Thou knowest Love full well what I become | F2 |
| She I trust sees it too who dwells with truth | R2 |
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| Ye sweet associates who admired her charms | S2 |
| Her life angelical | P2 |
| And her demeanour heavenly upon earth | T2 |
| For me lament and be by pity wrought | Z |
| No wise for her who risen | U2 |
| To so much peace me has in warfare left | Z |
| Such that should any shut | Z |
| The road to follow her for some length of time | Q2 |
| What Love declares to me | P2 |
| Alone would check my cutting through the tie | Z |
| But in this guise he reasons from within | V2 |
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| The mighty grief transporting thee restrain | N |
| For passions uncontroll'd | Z |
| Forfeit that heaven to which thy soul aspires | W2 |
| Where she is living whom some fancy dead | Z |
| While at her fair remains | D2 |
| She smiles herself sighing for thee alone | X2 |
| And that her fame which lives | Y2 |
| In many a clime hymn'd by thy tongue may ne'er | A2 |
| Become extinct she prays | Z2 |
| But that her name should harmonize thy voice | A3 |
| If e'er her eyes were lovely held and dear | B3 |
| Fly the calm green retreat | Z |
| And ne'er approach where song and laughter dwell | P2 |
| O strain but wail be thine | L2 |
| It suits thee ill with the glad throng to stay | Z |
| Thou sorrowing widow wrapp'd in garb of woe | I |
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| NOTT | Z |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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