To Laura In Death. Sonnet Lxxiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEFEFBBGHHG I JKKJJKKJLMGLMG G| Spinse amor e dolor ove ir non debbe | A |
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| REFLECTING THAT LAURA IS IN HEAVEN HE REPENTS HIS EXCESSIVE GRIEF AND IS CONSOLED | B |
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| Sorrow and Love encouraged my poor tongue | C |
| Discreet in sadness where it should not go | D |
| To speak of her for whom I burn'd and sung | C |
| What even were it true 'twere wrong to show | D |
| That bless d saint my miserable state | E |
| Might surely soothe and ease my spirit's strife | F |
| Since she in heaven is now domesticate | E |
| With Him who ever ruled her heart in life | F |
| Wherefore I am contented and consoled | B |
| Nor would again in life her form behold | B |
| Nay I prefer to die and live alone | G |
| Fairer than ever to my mental eye | H |
| I see her soaring with the angels high | H |
| Before our Lord her maker and my own | G |
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| MACGREGOR | I |
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| My love and grief compell'd me to proclaim | J |
| My heart's lament and urged me to convey | K |
| That were it true of her I should not say | K |
| Who woke alike my song and bosom's flame | J |
| For I should comfort find 'mid this world's shame | J |
| To mark her soul's beatified array | K |
| To think that He who here had own'd its sway | K |
| Doth now within his home its presence claim | J |
| And true I comfort find myself resign'd | L |
| I would not woo her back to earthly gloom | M |
| Oh rather let me die or live still lone | G |
| My mental eye that holds her there enshrined | L |
| Now paints her wing'd bright with celestial bloom | M |
| Prostrate beneath our mutual Heaven's throne | G |
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| WOLLASTON | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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