To Laura In Death. Sonnet Xvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDEFGDCHIAIHA J KLLKKLLKCMCBMB H| N mai pietosa madre al caro figlio | A |
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| HER COUNSEL ALONE AFFORDS HIM RELIEF | B |
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| Ne'er did fond mother to her darling son | C |
| Or zealous spouse to her belov d mate | D |
| Sage counsel give in perilous estate | D |
| With such kind caution in such tender tone | E |
| As gives that fair one who oft looking down | F |
| On my hard exile from her heavenly seat | G |
| With wonted kindness bends upon my fate | D |
| Her brow as friend or parent would have done | C |
| Now chaste affection prompts her speech now fear | H |
| Instructive speech that points what several ways | I |
| To seek or shun while journeying here below | A |
| Then all the ills of life she counts and prays | I |
| My soul ere long may quit this terrene sphere | H |
| And by her words alone I'm soothed and freed from woe | A |
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| NOTT | J |
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| Ne'er to the son in whom her age is blest | K |
| The anxious mother nor to her loved lord | L |
| The wedded dame impending ill to ward | L |
| With careful sighs so faithful counsel press'd | K |
| As she who from her high eternal rest | K |
| Bending as though my exile she deplored | L |
| With all her wonted tenderness restored | L |
| And softer pity on her brow impress'd | K |
| Now with a mother's fears and now as one | C |
| Who loves with chaste affection in her speech | M |
| She points what to pursue and what to shun | C |
| Our years retracing of long various grief | B |
| Wooing my soul at higher good to reach | M |
| And while she speaks my bosom finds relief | B |
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| DACRE | H |
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