To Laura In Death. Sonnet Xxxii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDCEFFEBGGBHH G ICCIICCIJKLMKL G| Quanta invidia ti porto avara terra | A |
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| HE ENVIES EARTH HEAVEN AND DEATH THEIR POSSESSION OF HIS TREASURE | B |
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| O earth whose clay cold mantle shrouds that face | C |
| And veils those eyes that late so brightly shone | D |
| Whence all that gave delight on earth was known | D |
| How much I envy thee that harsh embrace | C |
| O heaven that in thy airy courts confined | E |
| That purest spirit when from earth she fled | F |
| And sought the mansions of the righteous dead | F |
| How envious thus to leave my panting soul behind | E |
| O angels that in your seraphic choir | B |
| Received her sister soul and now enjoy | G |
| Still present those delights without alloy | G |
| Which my fond heart must still in vain desire | B |
| In her I lived in her my life decays | H |
| Yet envious Fate denies to end my hapless days | H |
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| WOODHOUSELEE | G |
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| What envy of the greedy earth I bear | I |
| That holds from me within its cold embrace | C |
| The light the meaning of that angel face | C |
| On which to gaze could soften e'en despair | I |
| What envy of the saints in realms so fair | I |
| Who eager seem'd from that bright form of grace | C |
| The spirit pure to summon to its place | C |
| Amidst those joys which few can hope to share | I |
| What envy of the blest in heaven above | J |
| With whom she dwells in sympathies divine | K |
| Denied to me on earth though sought in sighs | L |
| And oh what envy of stern Death I prove | M |
| That with her life has ta'en the light of mine | K |
| Yet calls me not though fixed and cold those eyes | L |
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| WROTTESLEY | G |
Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)
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