To Laura In Death. Sonnet Lv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCBCBCBCDAEDAF G BHHBBIIIJGGGJJ I| Or hai fatto l' estremo di tua possa | A |
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| DEATH MAY DEPRIVE HIM OF THE SIGHT OF HER BEAUTIES BUT NOT OF THE MEMORY OF HER VIRTUES | A |
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| Now hast thou shown fell Death thine utmost might | B |
| Through Love's bright realm hast want and darkness spread | C |
| Hast now cropp'd beauty's flower its heavenly light | B |
| Quench'd and enclosed in the grave's narrow bed | C |
| Now hast thou life despoil'd of all delight | B |
| Its ornament and sovereign honour shed | C |
| But fame and worth it is not thine to blight | B |
| These mock thy power and sleep not with the dead | C |
| Be thine the mortal part heaven holds the best | D |
| And glorying in its brightness brighter glows | A |
| While memory still records the great and good | E |
| O thou in thine high triumph angel blest | D |
| Let thy heart yield to pity of my woes | A |
| E'en as thy beauty here my soul subdued | F |
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| DACRE | G |
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| Now hast thou shown the utmost of thy might | B |
| O cruel Death Love's kingdom hast thou rent | H |
| And made it poor in narrow grave hast pent | H |
| The blooming flower of beauty and its light | B |
| Our wretched life thou hast despoil'd outright | B |
| Of every honour every ornament | I |
| But then her fame her worth by thee unblent | I |
| Shall still survive her dust is all thy right | I |
| The rest heaven holds proud of her charms divine | J |
| As of a brighter sun Nor dies she here | G |
| Her memory lasts to good men ever dear | G |
| O angel new in thy celestial sphere | G |
| Let pity now thy sainted heart incline | J |
| As here below thy beauty vanquish'd mine | J |
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| CHARLEMONT | I |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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