On The Death Of That Most Excellent Lady, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB BCCB BBB BBB DBCBC AEBC BFG HFF| Espa ol | A |
| Mueran contigo Laura pues moriste | B |
| los afectos que en vano te desean | C |
| los ojos a quien privas de que vean | C |
| hermosa luz que a un tiempo concediste | B |
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| Muera mi lira infausta en que influiste | B |
| ecos que lamentables te vocean | C |
| y hasta estos rasgos mal formados sean | C |
| l grimas negras de mi pluma triste | B |
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| Mu vase a compasi n la misma muerte | B |
| que precisa no pudo perdonarte | B |
| y lamente el amor su amarga suerte | B |
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| pues si antes ambicioso de gozarte | B |
| dese tener ojos para verte | B |
| ya le sirvieran s lo de llorarte | B |
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| English | D |
| Let them die with you Laura now you are dead | B |
| these longings that go out to you in vain | C |
| these eyes on whom you once bestowed | B |
| a lovely light never to gleam again | C |
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| Let this unfortunate lyre that echoes still | A |
| to sounds you woke perish calling your name | E |
| and may these clumsy scribblings represent | B |
| black tears my pen has shed to ease its pain | C |
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| Let Death himself feel pity and regret | B |
| that bound by his own law he could not spare you | F |
| and Love lament the bitter circumstance | G |
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| that if once in his desire for pleasure | H |
| he wished for eyes that they might feast on you | F |
| now weeping is all those eyes could ever do | F |
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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