Analysis of Ballata II.
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) 1304 (Tuscan city of Arezzo) – 1374 (Arquà, Padua, Republic of Venice)
Occhi miei lassi, mentre ch' io vi giro.
HE INVITES HIS EYES TO FEAST THEMSELVES ON LAURA.
My wearied eyes! while looking thus
On that fair fatal face to us,
Be wise, be brief, for--hence my sighs--
Already Love our bliss denies.
Death only can the amorous track
Shut from my thoughts which leads them back
To the sweet port of all their weal;
But lesser objects may conceal
Our light from you, that meaner far
In virtue and perfection are.
Wherefore, poor eyes! ere yet appears,
Already nigh, the time of tears,
Now, after long privation past,
Look, and some comfort take at last.
Scheme | A A BBCCDDEEAAXXFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 101111101110 11011101 11110111 11111111 010110101 110101001 11111111 10111111 11010101 101111101 01000101 1111101 01010111 11010101 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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