A quick reminder - the Petrarchan style is composed of an initial octave that sets forward a question, or establishes a situation, and is followed by a sestet that answers the question or changes the viewpoint. Also, the subject matter is typically focused on the cold, chaste, distant woman whom the speaker is desperately in love with and whose scorn he must endure. Finally, it is dangerous to assume that the speaker in a lyric represents the opinions and views of the poet.
As young lovers find anew how well night
Does hide their furtive frantic joys, that each
Moment spent, hidden from view, seems to teach
That coming age does bring with it delight.
Those songs once chided and condemned as trite
Do seem to love's right, proper soul to breach;
The thought of aimless stroll on moonlit beach
Is wreathed, within the mind's clear view, by light -
So you once seemed to be: alone, with me,
Companion on these love churned, storm tossed seas.
But then desertion; you ignored my pleas
And left to sit in glass smooth bay; warm; free.
No thought of him who found his life adrift
His head, above dark brine, struggling to lift.
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