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Sonnet: All My Thoughts

Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)



All my thoughts always speak to me of love,
Yet have between themselves such difference
That while one bids me bow with mind and sense,
A second saith, 'Go to: look thou above';
The third one, hoping, yields me joy enough;
And with the last come tears, I scarce know whence:
All of them craving pity in sore suspense,
Trembling with fears that the heart knoweth of.
And thus, being all unsure which path to take,
Wishing to speak I know not what to say,
And lose myself in amorous wanderings:
Until (my peace with all of them to make),
Unto mine enemy I needs must pray,
My lady Pity, for the help she brings.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCADCCAEFGEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 117
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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