My Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB BBBB CDDC EFFE AFCA CCCC GHHG HIIH IBBI ECCE JIIJ HKKH HIIH ILLI IIII AHAA BAIA GIJI CIDI ADAD IIMI CCCC GNBN JIHC IBBB DCJG DIGI GBIB IGHG IJDJ IIGI HCICEspa ol | A |
Perdite se ora quiero | B |
de mi silencio perd n | C |
si lo que ha sido atenci n | C |
le hace parecer grosero | B |
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Y no me podr s culpar | B |
si hasta aqu mi proceder | B |
por ocuparse en querer | B |
se ha olvidado de explicar | B |
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Que en mi amorosa pasi n | C |
no fue desuido ni mengua | D |
quitar el uso a la lengua | D |
por d rselo al coraz n | C |
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Ni de explicarme dejaba | E |
que como la pasi n m a | F |
ac en el alma te v a | F |
ac en el alma te hablaba | E |
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Y en esta idea notable | A |
dichosamenta viv a | F |
porque en mi mano tenia | C |
el fingirte favorable | A |
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Con traza tan peregrina | C |
vivi mi esperanza vana | C |
pues te pudo hacer humana | C |
concibi ndote divina | C |
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Oh cu n loca llegu a verme | G |
en tus dichosos amores | H |
que aun fingidos tus favroes | H |
pudieron enloquecerme | G |
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Oh c mo en tu sol hermoso | H |
mi ardiente afecto encendido | I |
por cebarse en lo lucido | I |
olvid lo peligroso | H |
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Perdona si atrevimiento | I |
fue atreverme a tu ardor puro | B |
que no hay sagrado seguro | B |
de culpas de pensamiento | I |
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De esta manera enga aba | E |
la loca esperanza m a | C |
y dentro de m ten a | C |
todo el bien que deseaba | E |
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Mas ya tu precepto grave | J |
rompe mi silencio mudo | I |
que l solamente ser pudo | I |
de mi respeto la llave | J |
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Y aunque el amar tu belleza | H |
es delito sin disculpa | K |
cast gueseme la culpa | K |
primero que la tibieza | H |
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No quieras pues rigurosa | H |
que estando ya declarada | I |
sea de veras desdichada | I |
quien fue de burlas dichosa | H |
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Si culpas mi desacato | I |
culpa tambi n tu licencia | L |
que si es mala mi obediencia | L |
no fue justo tu mandato | I |
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Y si es culpable mi intento | I |
ser mi afecto precito | I |
porque es amarte un delito | I |
de que nunca me arrepiento | I |
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Esto en mis afectos hallo | A |
y m s que explicar no s | H |
mas t de lo que call | A |
inferir s lo que callo | A |
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My lady I must implore | B |
forgiveness for keeping still | A |
if what I meant as tribute | I |
ran contrary to your will | A |
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Please do not reproach me | G |
if the course I have maintained | I |
in the eagerness of my love | J |
left my silence unexplained | I |
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I love you with so much passion | C |
neither rudeness nor neglect | I |
can explain why I tied my tongue | D |
yet left my heart unchecked | I |
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The matter to me was simple | A |
love for you was so strong | D |
I could see you in my soul | A |
and talk to you all day long | D |
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With this idea in mind | I |
I lived in utter delight | I |
pretending my subterfuge | M |
found favor in your sight | I |
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In this strange ingenious fashion | C |
I allowed the hope to be mine | C |
that I still might see as human | C |
what I really conceived as divine | C |
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Oh how mad I became | G |
in my blissful love of you | N |
for even though feigned your favor | B |
made all my madness seem true | N |
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How unwisely my ardent love | J |
which your glorious sun inflamed | I |
sought to feed upon your brightness | H |
though the risk of your fire was plain | C |
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Forgive me if thus emboldened | I |
I made bold with that sacred fire | B |
there's no sanctuary secure | B |
when thought's transgressions conspire | B |
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Thus it was I kept indulging | D |
these foolhardy hopes of mine | C |
enjoying within myself | J |
a happiness sublime | G |
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But now at your solemn bidding | D |
this silence I herewith suspend | I |
for your summons unlocks in me | G |
a respect no time can end | I |
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And although loving your beauty | G |
is a crime beyond repair | B |
rather the crime be chastised | I |
than my fervor cease to dare | B |
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With this confession in hand | I |
I pray be less stern with me | G |
Do not condemn to distress | H |
one who fancied bliss so free | G |
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If you blame me for disrespect | I |
remember you gave me leave | J |
thus if obedience was wrong | D |
your commanding must be my reprieve | J |
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Let my love be ever doomed | I |
if guilty in its intent | I |
for loving you is a crime | G |
of which I will never repent | I |
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This much I descry in my feelings | H |
and more that I cannot explain | C |
but you from what I've not said | I |
may infer what words won't contain | C |
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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