To Laura In Death. Canzone Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCAAEFGH IJJIIKLAAMM NODNNAAPPQQ RAARRSSTIUU VQQVVAAWWXY AIIAAZCA2A2LL B2QB2CC Q

Quando il suave mio fido confortoA
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SHE APPEARS TO HIM AND WITH MORE THAN WONTED AFFECTION ENDEAVOURS TO CONSOLE HIMB
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When she the faithful soother of my painC
This life's long weary pilgrimage to cheerD
Vouchsafes beside my nightly couch to appearD
With her sweet speech attempering reason's strainC
O'ercome by tenderness and terror vainC
I cry Whence comest thou O spirit blestA
She from her beauteous breastA
A branch of laurel and of palm displaysE
And answering thus she saysF
From th' empyrean seat of holy loveG
Alone thy sorrows to console I moveH
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In actions and in words in humble guiseI
I speak my thanks and ask How may it beJ
That thou shouldst know my wretched state and sheJ
Thy floods of tears perpetual and thy sighsI
Breathed forth unceasing to high heaven ariseI
And there disturb thy blissful state sereneK
So grievous hath it beenL
That freed from this poor being I at lastA
To a better life have pass'dA
Which should have joy'd thee hadst thou loved as wellM
As thy sad brow and sadder numbers tellM
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Oh not thy ills I but deplore my ownN
In darkness and in grief remaining hereO
Certain that thou hast reach'd the highest sphereD
As of a thing that man hath seen and knownN
Would God and Nature to the world have shownN
Such virtue in a young and gentle breastA
Were not eternal restA
The appointed guerdon of a life so fairP
Thou of the spirits rareP
Who from a course unspotted pure and highQ
Are suddenly translated to the skyQ
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But I how can I cease to weep forlornR
Without thee nothing wretched desolateA
Oh in the cradle had I met my fateA
Or at the breast and not to love been bornR
And she Why by consuming grief thus wornR
Were it not better spread aloft thy wingsS
And now all mortal thingsS
With these thy sweet and idle fantasiesT
At their just value prizeI
And follow me if true thy tender vowsU
Gathering henceforth with me these honour'd boughsU
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Then answering her Fain would I thou shouldst sayV
What these two verdant branches signifyQ
Methinks she says thou may'st thyself replyQ
Whose pen has graced the one by many a layV
The palm shows victory and in youth's bright dayV
I overcame the world and my weak heartA
The triumph mine in partA
Glory to Him who made my weakness strengthW
And thou yet turn at lengthW
'Gainst other powers his gracious aid imploreX
That we may be with Him thy trial o'erY
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Are these the crisped locks and links of goldA
That bind me still And these the radiant eyesI
To me the Sun Err not with the unwiseI
Nor think she says as they are wont BeholdA
In me a spirit among the blest enroll'dA
Thou seek'st what hath long been earth againZ
Yet to relieve thy painC
'Tis given me thus to appear ere I resumeA2
That beauty from the tombA2
More loved that I severe in pity winL
Thy soul with mine to Heaven from death and sinL
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I weep and she my cheekB2
Soft sighing with her own fair hand will dryQ
And gently chiding speakB2
In tones of power to rive hard rocks in twainC
Then vanishing sleep follows in her trainC
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DACREQ

Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)



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