Carnal And Spiritual Love. First Reading Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEEFDF| Passa per gli occhi | A |
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| Swift through the eyes unto the heart within | B |
| All lovely forms that thrall our spirit stray | C |
| So smooth and broad and open is the way | C |
| That thousands and not hundreds enter in | B |
| Burdened with scruples and weighed down with sin | B |
| These mortal beauties fill me with dismay | C |
| Nor find I one that doth not strive to stay | C |
| My soul on transient joy or lets me win | B |
| The heaven I yearn for Lo when erring love | D |
| Who fills the world howe'er his power we shun | E |
| Else were the world a grave and we undone | E |
| Assails the soul if grace refuse to fan | F |
| Our purged desires and make them soar above | D |
| What grief it were to have been born a man | F |
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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