This sonnet is characterized as an English or Shakespearean sonnet that consists of the three four line stanzas and a final couplet, or two lines. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Each of the four line stanzas ventures a different part of the poems subject. The couplet usually presents a concluding comment. This sonnet is about Francesco's love Laura that showed no affection back to him. This sonnet records his feelings for her when they first met on Good Friday. Some of the devices he used are: allusions (when he says "his arrow flies and strikes the mark where it must ever say") and personification ( when he says "grew pale in pity of his suffering Lord").
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