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 conforto | A |
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| SHE APPEARS TO HIM AND WITH MORE THAN WONTED AFFECTION ENDEAVOURS TO CONSOLE HIM | B |
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| When she the faithful soother of my pain | C |
| This life's long weary pilgrimage to cheer | D |
| Vouchsafes beside my nightly couch to appear | D |
| With her sweet speech attempering reason's strain | C |
| O'ercome by tenderness and terror vain | C |
| I cry Whence comest thou O spirit blest | A |
| She from her beauteous breast | A |
| A branch of laurel and of palm displays | E |
| And answering thus she says | F |
| From th' empyrean seat of holy love | G |
| Alone thy sorrows to console I move | H |
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| In actions and in words in humble guise | I |
| I speak my thanks and ask How may it be | J |
| That thou shouldst know my wretched state and she | J |
| Thy floods of tears perpetual and thy sighs | I |
| Breathed forth unceasing to high heaven arise | I |
| And there disturb thy blissful state serene | K |
| So grievous hath it been | L |
| That freed from this poor being I at last | A |
| To a better life have pass'd | A |
| Which should have joy'd thee hadst thou loved as well | M |
| As thy sad brow and sadder numbers tell | M |
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| Oh not thy ills I but deplore my own | N |
| In darkness and in grief remaining here | O |
| Certain that thou hast reach'd the highest sphere | D |
| As of a thing that man hath seen and known | N |
| Would God and Nature to the world have shown | N |
| Such virtue in a young and gentle breast | A |
| Were not eternal rest | A |
| The appointed guerdon of a life so fair | P |
| Thou of the spirits rare | P |
| Who from a course unspotted pure and high | Q |
| Are suddenly translated to the sky | Q |
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| But I how can I cease to weep forlorn | R |
| Without thee nothing wretched desolate | A |
| Oh in the cradle had I met my fate | A |
| Or at the breast and not to love been born | R |
| And she Why by consuming grief thus worn | R |
| Were it not better spread aloft thy wings | S |
| And now all mortal things | S |
| With these thy sweet and idle fantasies | T |
| At their just value prize | I |
| And follow me if true thy tender vows | U |
| Gathering henceforth with me these honour'd boughs | U |
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| Then answering her Fain would I thou shouldst say | V |
| What these two verdant branches signify | Q |
| Methinks she says thou may'st thyself reply | Q |
| Whose pen has graced the one by many a lay | V |
| The palm shows victory and in youth's bright day | V |
| I overcame the world and my weak heart | A |
| The triumph mine in part | A |
| Glory to Him who made my weakness strength | W |
| And thou yet turn at length | W |
| 'Gainst other powers his gracious aid implore | X |
| That we may be with Him thy trial o'er | Y |
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| Are these the crisped locks and links of gold | A |
| That bind me still And these the radiant eyes | I |
| To me the Sun Err not with the unwise | I |
| Nor think she says as they are wont Behold | A |
| In me a spirit among the blest enroll'd | A |
| Thou seek'st what hath long been earth again | Z |
| Yet to relieve thy pain | C |
| 'Tis given me thus to appear ere I resume | A2 |
| That beauty from the tomb | A2 |
| More loved that I severe in pity win | L |
| Thy soul with mine to Heaven from death and sin | L |
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| I weep and she my cheek | B2 |
| Soft sighing with her own fair hand will dry | Q |
| And gently chiding speak | B2 |
| In tones of power to rive hard rocks in twain | C |
| Then vanishing sleep follows in her train | C |
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| DACRE | Q |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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