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A Dialogue In Purgatory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Poi disse un altro Io son Buonconte	A
Giovanna o altri non ha di me cura	B
Per ch' io vo tra costor con bassa fronte	A
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Seguito il terzo spirito al secondo	A
Ricorditi di me che son la Pia	C
Siena mi fe disfecemi Maremma	D
Salsi colui che inannellata pria	B
Disposata m' avea colla sua gemma	D
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PURGATORIO CANTO V	E
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I	-
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BUONCONTE	A
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Sister the sun has ceased to shine	F
By companies of twain and trine	F
Stars gather from the sea	E
The moon comes momently	G
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On all the roads that ring our hill	G
The sighing and the hymns are still	G
It is our time to gain	H
Strength for to morrow's pain	H
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Yet still your eyes are wholly bent	A
Upon the way that Virgil went	A
Following Sordello's sign	F
With the dark Florentine	I
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Night now has barred their upward track	J
There where the mountain side folds back	J
And in the Vale of Flowers	K
The Princes count their hours	K
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Those three friends sit in the clear starlight	A
With the green clad angels left and right	A
Soul made by wakeful soul	G
More earnest for the goal	G
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So let us sister though our place	L
Is barren of that Valley's grace	L
Sit hand in hand till we	E
Seem rich as those friends be	E
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II	-
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LA PIA	D
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Brother 't were sweet your hand to feel	G
In mine it would a little heal	G
The shame that makes me poor	B
And dumb at the heart's core	B
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But where our spirits felt Love's dearth	M
Down on the green and pleasant earth	M
Remains the fleshly shell	G
Love's garment tangible	G
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So now our hands have naught to say	N
Heart unto heart some other way	N
Must utter forth its pain	H
Must glee or comfort gain	H
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Ah no For souls like you and me	E
Some comfort waits but never glee	E
Not yours the young men's singing	O
In Heaven at the bride bringing	O
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Not mine beside God's living waters	K
Dance of the marriageable daughters	K
The laughter and the ease	P
Beneath His summer trees	P
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III	-
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BUONCONTE	A
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In fair Arezzo's halls and bowers	K
My Giovanna speeds her hours	K
Delicately nor cares	Q
To shorten by her prayers	Q
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My days upon this mount of ruth	R
If those who come from earth speak sooth	R
Though still I call and call	G
She does not heed at all	G
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And if aright your words I read	A
At Dante's passing he you wed	A
Dipped from the drains of Hell	G
The marriage hydromel	G
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O therefore while the moon intense	S
Holds yonder dreaming sea suspense	S
And round the shadowy coasts	T
Gather the wistful ghosts	T
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Let us sit quiet all the night	A
And wonder wonder on the light	A
Worn by those spirits fair	B
Whom Love has not left bare	B
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IV	E
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LA PIA	D
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Even as theirs the chance was mine	F
To meet and mate beneath Love's sign	F
To feel in soul and sense	S
The solemn influence	U
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Which breathed upon a man or maid	A
Maketh forever unafraid	A
Though life with death unite	A
That spirit to affright	A
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Which lifts the chang d heart high up	V
As the priest lifts the chang d cup	V
Boldens the feet to pace	L
Before God's proving face	L
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O just a thought beyond the blue	G
The wings of the dove yearned down and through	G
Even now I hear and hear	B
How near they were how near	B
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I murmur not Rightly disgraced	A
The weak hand stretched abroad in haste	A
For gifts barely allowed	A
The tacit strong and proud	A
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But therefore was I so intent	A
To watch where Dante onward went	A
With the Roman spirit pure	B
And the grave troubadour	B
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Because my mind was busy then	W
With the loves that wait those gentle men	W
Cunizza one and one	X
Bice above the sun	X
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And for the other more and less	Y
Than woman's near felt tenderness	Z
A million voices dim	D
Praising him praising him	D
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V	E
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BUONCONTE	A
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The waves that wash this mountain's base	L
Were crimson in the sun's low rays	A2
When singing high and fast	A
An angel downward passed	A
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To bid some patient soul arise	B2
And make it fair for Paradise	C2
And upward so attended	A
That soul its journey wended	A
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Yet you who in these lower rings	D2
Wait for the coming of such wings	D2
Turned not your eyes to view	G
Whether they came for you	G
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But watched but watched great Virgil stayed	A
Greeting Sordello's couchant shade	A
Which to salute him rose	E2
Like lion from its pose	E2
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While humbly by those lords of song	F2
Stood he whose living limbs are strong	F2
To mount where Mary's bliss	G2
Is shed on Beatrice	Z
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On him your gaze was fastened more	B
Than on those great names Mantua bore	B
Your eyes hold the distress	Y
Still of that wistfulness	Z
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Yea fit he seemed much love to rouse	H2
His pilgrim lips and iron brows	I2
Grew like a woman's dim	D
While you held speech with him	D
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And troubled came his mortal breath	R
The while I told him of my death	R
His looks were changed and wan	J2
When Virgil led him on	J2
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VI	E
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LA PIA	D
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E'er since Casella came this morn	K2
Newly o'er yonder ocean borne	K2
Bound upward for the choir	B
Who purge themselves in fire	B
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And from that meinie he was of	E
Stayed backward at my cry of love	E
To speak awhile with me	E
Of life and Tuscany	E
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And parting told us how e'er day	A
Was done Dante would come this way	A
With mortal feet to find	A
His sweetheart sky enshrined	A
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E'er since Casella spoke such news	L2
My heart has lain in a golden muse	L2
Picturing him and her	B
What starry ones they were	B
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And now the moon sheds its compassion	X
O'er the hushed mount I try to fashion	X
The manner of their meeting	O
Their few first words of greeting	O
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O well for them with clasp d hands	M2
Unshamed amid the heavenly bands	M2
They hear no pitying pair	B
Of old time lovers there	B
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Look down and say in an undertone	N2
This latest come who comes alone	N2
Was still alone on earth	R
And lonely from his birth	R
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Nor feel a sudden whisper mar	B
God's weather Dost thou see the scar	B
That spirit hideth so	O2
Who dealt her such a blow	O2
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That God can hardly wipe it out	A
And answer She gave love no doubt	A
To one who saw not fit	A
To set much store by it	A