To Laura In Death. Sonnet Lxiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCCCCECFCEF G HIIHHIIHJKLJKL L| Tornami a mente anzi v' dentro quella | A |
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| SHE IS SO FIXED IN HIS HEART THAT AT TIMES HE BELIEVES HER STILL ALIVE AND IS FORCED TO RECALL THE DATE OF HER DEATH | B |
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| Oh to my soul for ever she returns | C |
| Or rather Lethe could not blot her thence | D |
| Such as she was when first she struck my sense | D |
| In that bright blushing age when beauty burns | C |
| So still I see her bashful as she turns | C |
| Retired into herself as from offence | C |
| I cry 'Tis she she still has life and sense | C |
| Oh speak to me my love Sometimes she spurns | C |
| My call sometimes she seems to answer straight | E |
| Then starting from my waking dream I say | C |
| Alas poor wretch thou art of mind bereft | F |
| Forget'st thou the first hour of the sixth day | C |
| Of April the three hundred forty eight | E |
| And thousandth year when she her earthly mansion left | F |
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| MOREHEAD | G |
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| My mind recalls her nay her home is there | H |
| Nor can Lethean draught drive thence her form | I |
| I see that star's pure ray her spirit warm | I |
| Whose grace and spring time beauty she doth wear | H |
| As thus my vision paints her charms so rare | H |
| That none to such perfection may conform | I |
| I cry 'Tis she death doth to life transform | I |
| And then to hear that voice I wake my prayer | H |
| She now replies and now doth mute appear | J |
| Like one whose tottering mind regains its power | K |
| I speak my heart Thou must this cheat resign | L |
| The thirteen hundred eight and fortieth year | J |
| The sixth of April's suns his first bright hour | K |
| Thou know'st that soul celestial fled its shrine | L |
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| WOLLASTON | L |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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