The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - Self-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDCCBEFGFEG| Credulo il proprio amor | A |
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| Self love fools man with false opinion | B |
| That earth air water fire the stars we see | C |
| Though stronger and more beautiful than we | C |
| Feel nought love not but move for us alone | D |
| Then all the tribes of earth except his own | D |
| Seem to him senseless rude God lets them be | C |
| To kith and kin next shrinks his sympathy | C |
| Till in the end loves only self each one | B |
| Learning he shuns that he may live at ease | E |
| And since the world is little to his mind | F |
| God and God's ruling Forethought he denies | G |
| Craft he calls wisdom and perversely blind | F |
| Seeking to reign erects new deities | E |
| At last 'I make the Universe ' he cries | G |
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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