I Swear To You, Love, By Your Arrows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBE EGEHEB| I swear to you Love by your arrows | A |
| And by your powerful holy flame | B |
| I care not if by one I m maimed | C |
| My heart burned wasted by the other | D |
| However far through times past or coming | E |
| There never was nor will be woman | F |
| Whomever of them you wish to name | B |
| Could know such sharpness such devouring | E |
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| For there s a virtue born from suffering | E |
| That dims and conquers the sense of pain | G |
| So that it s barely felt seems scarcely hurting | E |
| No This that torments soul and body again | H |
| This is the real fear presaging my dying | E |
| What if my fire be only straw and flame | B |
Gaspara Stampa
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