To Laura In Death. Sonnet Xxii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCCDDCCACACC E FDDFFDDFCGCCGC H| Come va 'l mondo or mi diletta e piace | A |
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| HE BLESSES LAURA FOR HER VIRTUE | B |
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| How goes the world now please me and delight | C |
| What most displeased me now I see and feel | D |
| My trials were vouchsafed me for my weal | D |
| That peace eternal should brief war requite | C |
| O hopes and wishes ever fond and slight | C |
| In lovers most which oftener harm than heal | D |
| Worse had she yielded to my warm appeal | D |
| Whom Heaven has welcomed from the grave's dark night | C |
| But blind love and my dull mind so misled | C |
| I sought to trespass even by main force | A |
| Where to have won my precious soul were dead | C |
| Bless d be she who shaped mine erring course | A |
| To better port by turns who curb'd and lured | C |
| My bold and passionate will where safety was secured | C |
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| MACGREGOR | E |
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| Alas this changing world my present joy | F |
| Was once my grief's dark source and now I feel | D |
| My sufferings pass'd were but my soul to heal | D |
| Its fearful warfare peace's soft decoy | F |
| Poor human wishes Hope thou fragile toy | F |
| To lovers oft my woe had met its seal | D |
| Had she but hearken'd to my love's appeal | D |
| Who throned in heaven hath fled this world's alloy | F |
| My blinded love and yet more stubborn mind | C |
| Resistless urged me to my bosom's shame | G |
| And where my soul's destruction I had met | C |
| But bless d she who bade life's current find | C |
| A holier course who still'd my spirit's flame | G |
| With gentle hope that soul might triumph yet | C |
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| WOLLASTON | H |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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