Petrarch To Laura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C DDEEFFGHIIJJ KKKKKKKKKKKKLLIIMM NNOOKKKKLLPPQQKKKK KKNNRSKKTTLLKKUUVVWW XXYYKKOOYY ZZXXA2A2YYOOQQYYB2F C2C2KKD2D2E2E2FFF2F2 QQYYF2F2F2F2QQQQQQ KKKKOOQQQQG2G2KKQQFF QQQQKKQQQQQQKKYYQQYY KKQQOOKKA2QEre such a soul regains its peaceful state | A |
How often must it love how often hate | A |
How often hope despair resent regret | B |
Conceal disdain do all things but forget | B |
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POPE | C |
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YE silent haunts ye dark embow'ring shades | D |
Lone shaggy wilds and melancholy glades | D |
Ye mountains black'ning o'er the thorny vale | E |
Ye lucid lakes that trembling meet the gale | E |
Ye gloomy avenues of dire despair | F |
Dear last asylums of long cherish'd care | F |
Eternal solitudes where LOVE retires | G |
To bathe his wounds and quench his fatal fires | H |
Where frantic lost forlorn and sad I go | I |
A wand'ring pilgrim in a maze of woe | I |
Oh to your deepest caverns let me fly | J |
Breathe a fond pray'r and 'MIDST YOUR HORRORS DIE | J |
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Ye sparry grots ye once ador'd retreats | K |
Ye tinkling rills ye consecrated seats | K |
Whose velvet sod embroider'd o'er with flow'rs | K |
On the charm'd sense celestial odour pours | K |
Ye roseate banks o'erhung with waving trees | K |
That moan responsive to the murm'ring breeze | K |
How cold how desolate your shade appears | K |
A path of mis'ry thro' a vale of tears | K |
Now pale Despair hangs brooding o'er your bow'rs | K |
Absorbs your sweets and withers all your flow'rs | K |
Strips the thick foliage from your verdant shades | K |
And spreads eternal darkness o'er your glades | K |
No more for ME your sunny banks shall pour | L |
In purple tides ripe Autumn's luscious store | L |
No more for ME your lust'rous tints shall glow | I |
Your forests wave your silv'ry channels flow | I |
Yet 'midst your heav'n my wounded breast shall crave | M |
One narrow cell my SOLACE and my GRAVE | M |
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Subdu'd o'erwhelm'd a with'ring shade I stray | N |
Shrink from myself and shudder at the day | N |
No more fond HOPE sustains my sick'ning soul | O |
Resistless passion spurns her meek controul | O |
Corroding anguish o'er each prospect low'rs | K |
Bends my weak frame my lusty youth devours | K |
Clings to my breast where ev'ry fibre bleeds | K |
And on its vital throne insatiate feeds | K |
Where shall I fly what path untrod explore | L |
Where love can wound and memory live no more | L |
Where LAURA shall I turn what balsam find | P |
To soothe the throbbings of my fev'rish mind | P |
What blest relief can life's dull round impart | Q |
What rapture vivify the hopeless heart | Q |
What pitying star its beamy stream dispense | K |
To light my soul and cheer my vagrant sense | K |
To gild the gloom of desolating woes | K |
And lead my wand'ring footsteps to repose | K |
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When wild with passion madd'ning with remorse | K |
From AVIGNON'S lov'd walls I bent my course | K |
While roll'd in crimson clouds the orb of day | N |
O'er seas of ether shed his parting ray | N |
As to his western goal he journey'd forth | R |
Leaving pale twilight weeping o'er the earth | S |
Oft did I pause oft turn my longing eyes | K |
To the tall spire that pierc'd the evening skies | K |
All was serene save when the curfew's sound | T |
Struck on my pensive heart with knell profound | T |
While Fancy bade my frantic mind explore | L |
Those scenes of holy joy I taste no more | L |
Unsullied altars consecrated shrines | K |
Where curling incense round each taper twines | K |
Where thro' long aisles seraphic P ANS ring | U |
And meek ey'd virgins choral anthems sing | U |
Where like a being of celestial mould | V |
My LAURA'S beauteous form I dar'd behold | V |
While at the shrine her orisons she pour'd | W |
Pure as the spirit of the saint ador'd | W |
Oft as the cross her snowy fingers press'd | X |
Her auburn tresses veil'd her spotless breast | X |
A shade transparent deck'd her brow divine | Y |
And bade her eyes with temper'd lustre shine | Y |
As low she bow'd before the throne of Grace | K |
A cherub's softness harmoniz'd her face | K |
A smile benign reveal'd her tranquil soul | O |
While from her lips devotion's fervour stole | O |
Each conscious rapture to her share was giv'n | Y |
Her form was virtue and her mind was heav'n | Y |
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Fix'd to the earth with trembling zeal I gaz'd | Z |
Each passion waken'd and each sense amaz'd | Z |
Involuntary sighs too soon confess'd | X |
The struggling tumults lab'ring in my breast | X |
No thought sublime on my rapt feelings hung | A2 |
No sacred eloquence unchain'd my tongue | A2 |
ALL ALL WAS LOVE while thro' my burning brain | Y |
Rush'd a fierce torrent of convulsive pain | Y |
From my dim eyes celestial radiance stole | O |
While howling demons grasp'd my sinking soul | O |
Guilt's writhing scorpions twining round my heart | Q |
Enflam'd each wound and heighten'd every smart | Q |
In vain I sought Religion's calm domain | Y |
And at her footstool pour'd my hopeless pain | Y |
The priestess frowning on my impious pray'r | B2 |
Check'd the bold suit and hurl'd me to despair | F |
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AH LAURA canst thou seal the dread decree | C2 |
That tears thy PETRARCH from his GOD and THEE | C2 |
That gives his mental hopes his fond desires | K |
To conscious anguish and consuming fires | K |
Canst thou with unrelenting vengeance urge | D2 |
A trembling soul to fate's extremest verge | D2 |
And while subdu'd it supplicates relief | E2 |
Dash the doom'd suff'rer to eternal grief | E2 |
Why soft enchantress spread the fatal snare | F |
That lures thy struggling victim to despair | F |
Why with meek smiles my wand'ring sense reclaim | F2 |
Why feed with pitying looks my hopeless flame | F2 |
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Ah rather come in awful lustre drest | Q |
Calm my touch'd sense and lull the fiends to rest | Q |
Teach me each rebel passion to disown | Y |
Chill my hot pulse and freeze my heart to stone | Y |
With contrite sighs devotion's flame illume | F2 |
With holy tear drops gem this mental gloom | F2 |
Come in transcendent VIRTUE'S sacred form | F2 |
Stem the fierce torrent and appease the storm | F2 |
Grasp the dire bolt suspended o'er my head | Q |
And o'er my quiv'ring heart strings patience shed | Q |
Check with thy councils ev'ry madd'ning flight | Q |
Direct me trembling to the paths of light | Q |
Bow my parch'd dip to kiss the chast'ning rod | Q |
And lead me blushing to the throne of GOD | Q |
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Where'er I fly where'er my frenzy roves | K |
To pine clad summits or low bending groves | K |
Still on my shatter'd brain thy form appears | K |
Steals to my heart and glistens thro' my tears | K |
Thy voice I hear in ev'ry whispering gale | O |
Thy fragrant breath from Citron buds inhale | O |
I mark the ROSE in native sweetness drest | Q |
I snatch the blushing emblem to my breast | Q |
Thy burnish'd ringlets float across my sight | Q |
In the last glowing stream of orient light | Q |
And as the star of morn unfolds its fire | G2 |
Stolen from the glances of its burning sire | G2 |
Thy beaming eyes emit translucent rays | K |
The lust'rous heralds of thy soul's rich blaze | K |
A matron's purity thy smiles impart | Q |
And Heav'n's best splendours brighten in thy heart | Q |
Ah wherefore PETRARCH wherefore rashly dare | F |
The dang'rous magic of a form so fair | F |
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Yet ere thy pow'r supreme my soul confess'd | Q |
Ere fainting Virtue fled my burning breast | Q |
While in its veins one ling'ring spark remain'd | Q |
One heavenly spark by trembling hope sustain'd | Q |
VAUCLUSE thy sylvan solitudes I chose | K |
To cure my passion or conceal my woes | K |
And oft beneath thy melancholy shade | Q |
Reluctant pensive half resolv'd I stray'd | Q |
And trembling fault'ring frequent sighs I pour'd | Q |
Before the shrine of HIM but half ador'd | Q |
While as the sacred Virgin's form I view'd | Q |
A brighter IDOL every sense subdu'd | Q |
While holy vows were lost in warm desires | K |
LOVE drop'd a tear that quench'd religion's fires | K |
While thro' my eyes my heart's true fervour shone | Y |
And my fond soul dear Saint WAS ALL THY OWN | Y |
Now o'er some craggy peak when frowning night | Q |
Grasps the last shad'wy tint of ruby light | Q |
When o'er the vast expanse I seek in vain | Y |
The tawny vineyard and the yellow plain | Y |
Heedless I wander while the tempest flies | K |
Brave the bleak winds and mock the threat'ning skies | K |
Where from the wild romantic cliffs around | Q |
The headlong torrents fall with hollow sound | Q |
And stealing thro' the winding vale below | O |
Unseen thro' mid day glooms incessant flow | O |
While sullen echo's a ry tongue betrays | K |
Where round her seat each brawling channel strays | K |
While the lone owl her lurid haunts among | A2 |
T | Q |
Mary Darby Robinson
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