To Laura In Death. Sonnet Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDECCEECFGHFGH I CJCJEKEKLKMNKN N| La vita fugge e non s' arresta un' ora | A |
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| PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE NOW ALIKE PAINFUL TO HIM | B |
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| Life passes quick nor will a moment stay | C |
| And death with hasty journeys still draws near | D |
| And all the present joins my soul to tear | E |
| With every past and every future day | C |
| And to look back or forward so does prey | C |
| On this distracted breast that sure I swear | E |
| Did I not to myself some pity bear | E |
| I were e'en now from all these thoughts away | C |
| Much do I muse on what of pleasures past | F |
| This woe worn heart has known meanwhile t' oppose | G |
| My passage loud the winds around me roar | H |
| I see my bliss in port and torn my mast | F |
| And sails my pilot faint with toil and those | G |
| Fair lights that wont to guide me now no more | H |
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| ANON OX | I |
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| Life ever flies with course that nought may stay | C |
| Death follows after with gigantic stride | J |
| Ills past and present on my spirit prey | C |
| And future evils threat on every side | J |
| Whether I backward look or forward fare | E |
| A thousand ills my bosom's peace molest | K |
| And were it not that pity bids me spare | E |
| My nobler part I from these thoughts would rest | K |
| If ever aught of sweet my heart has known | L |
| Remembrance wakes its charms while tempest tost | K |
| I mark the clouds that o'er my course still frown | M |
| E'en in the port I see the storm afar | N |
| Weary my pilot mast and cable lost | K |
| And set for ever my fair polar star | N |
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| DACRE | N |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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