To Laura In Death. Canzone V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEEFFFFGG FFFFHHFIFIDD JFJFCCKFKFFF LFLFJJDFDFMM NCNCOOPCPCQQ DFDFPP C| Solea dalla fontana di mia vita | A |
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| MEMORY IS HIS ONLY SOLACE AND SUPPORT | B |
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| I who was wont from life's best fountain far | C |
| So long to wander searching land and sea | D |
| Pursuing not my pleasure but my star | C |
| And alway as Love knows who strengthen'd me | D |
| Ready in bitter exile to depart | E |
| For hope and memory both then fed my heart | E |
| Alas now wring my hands and to unkind | F |
| And angry Fortune which away has reft | F |
| That so sweet hope my armour have resign'd | F |
| And memory only left | F |
| I feed my great desire on that alone | G |
| Whence frail and famish'd is my spirit grown | G |
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| As haply by the way if want of food | F |
| Compel the traveller to relax his speed | F |
| Losing that strength which first his steps endued | F |
| So feeling for my weary life the need | F |
| Of that dear nourishment Death rudely stole | H |
| Leaving the world all bare and sad my soul | H |
| From time to time fair pleasures pall my sweet | F |
| To bitter turns fear rises and hopes fail | I |
| My course though brief that I shall e'er complete | F |
| Cloudlike before the gale | I |
| To win some resting place from rest I flee | D |
| If such indeed my doom so let it be | D |
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| Never to mortal life could I incline | J |
| Be witness Love with whom I parley oft | F |
| Except for her who was its light and mine | J |
| And since below extinguish'd shines aloft | F |
| The life in which I lived if lawful 'twere | C |
| My chief desire would be to follow her | C |
| But mine is ample cause of grief for I | K |
| To see my future fate was ill supplied | F |
| This Love reveal'd within her beauteous eye | K |
| Elsewhere my hopes to guide | F |
| Too late he dies disconsolate and sad | F |
| Whom death a little earlier had made glad | F |
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| In those bright eyes where wont my heart to dwell | L |
| Until by envy my hard fortune stirr'd | F |
| Rose from so rich a temple to expel | L |
| Love with his proper hand had character'd | F |
| In lines of pity what ere long I ween | J |
| The issue of my old desire had been | J |
| Dying alone and not my life with me | D |
| Comely and sweet it then had been to die | F |
| Leaving my life's best part unscathed and free | D |
| But now my fond hopes lie | F |
| Dead in her silent dust a secret chill | M |
| Shoots through me when I think that I live still | M |
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| If my poor intellect had but the force | N |
| To help my need and if no other lure | C |
| Had led it from the plain and proper course | N |
| Upon my lady's brow 'twere easy sure | C |
| To have read this truth Here all thy pleasure dies | O |
| And hence thy lifelong trial dates its rise | O |
| My spirit then had gently pass'd away | P |
| In her dear presence from all mortal care | C |
| Freed from this troublesome and heavy clay | P |
| Mounting before her where | C |
| Angels and saints prepared on high her place | Q |
| Whom I but follow now with slow sad pace | Q |
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| My song if one there be | D |
| Who in his love finds happiness and rest | F |
| Tell him this truth from me | D |
| Die while thou still art bless'd | F |
| For death betimes is comfort not dismay | P |
| And who can rightly die needs no delay | P |
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| MACGREGOR | C |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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