To Laura In Death. Sonnet Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDDCDCEFGHFH G IDIDJKJLMNMNGG O PNPNGQGQMRMRFF S| Se lamentar augelli o Verdi fronde | A |
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| SHE IS EVER PRESENT TO HIM | B |
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| If the lorn bird complain or rustling sweep | C |
| Soft summer airs o'er foliage waving slow | D |
| Or the hoarse brook come murmuring down the steep | C |
| Where on the enamell'd bank I sit below | D |
| With thoughts of love that bid my numbers flow | D |
| 'Tis then I see her though in earth she sleep | C |
| Her form'd in heaven I see and hear and know | D |
| Responsive sighing weeping as I weep | C |
| Alas she pitying says ere yet the hour | E |
| Why hurry life away with swifter flight | F |
| Why from thy eyes this flood of sorrow pour | G |
| No longer mourn my fate through death my days | H |
| Become eternal to eternal light | F |
| These eyes which seem'd in darkness closed I raise | H |
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| DACRE | G |
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| Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam | I |
| And softly bend as balmy breezes blow | D |
| And where with liquid lapse the lucid stream | I |
| Across the fretted rock is heard to flow | D |
| Pensive I lay when she whom earth conceals | J |
| As if still living to my eye appears | K |
| And pitying Heaven her angel form reveals | J |
| To say Unhappy Petrarch dry your tears | L |
| Ah why sad lover thus before your time | M |
| In grief and sadness should your life decay | N |
| And like a blighted flower your manly prime | M |
| In vain and hopeless sorrow fade away | N |
| Ah yield not thus to culpable despair | G |
| But raise thine eyes to heaven and think I wait thee there | G |
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| CHARLOTTE SMITH | O |
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| Moved by the summer wind when all is still | P |
| The light leaves quiver on the yielding spray | N |
| Sighs from its flowery bank the lucid rill | P |
| While the birds answer in their sweetest lay | N |
| Vain to this sickening heart these scenes appear | G |
| No form but hers can meet my tearful eyes | Q |
| In every passing gale her voice I hear | G |
| It seems to tell me I have heard thy sighs | Q |
| But why she cries in manhood's towering prime | M |
| In grief's dark mist thy days inglorious hide | R |
| Ah dost thou murmur that my span of time | M |
| Has join'd eternity's unchanging tide | R |
| Yes though I seem'd to shut mine eyes in night | F |
| They only closed to wake in everlasting light | F |
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| ANNE BANNERMAN | S |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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