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Poem: Pure Petrarchian love sonnet.
Rhyme structure: ABBA, ABBA, CDC and CDC, according to Wyatt’s structure fixed in the Sixteenth century.
Lines used: decasyllables, according to Surrey’s structure fixed in the Sixteenth century.
Vertical acrostic: Angelic Rebecca
Title: Angelic Rebecca
Theme: endless and eternal love.
Content: exclusively spiritual and thoroughly platonic
ANGELIC REBECCA (729)
1. Angelic Rebecca, you are my holy bride,
2. Noble Calliope, I am sighing for you,
3. Gentle Aphrodite, my platonic love is true,
4. Eternal Venus, our hearts nobody will divide.
5. Lily, your divine soul in bright heaven will abide,
6. Ivory Calliope, I am burning for you,
7. Chaste Daphne, I am cutting my veins for you,
8. Radiant swan, your pureness nobody can chide.
9. Echo, I love you with all my human might,
10. Brilliant diamond, I am dying for thee,
11. Electra, I would surely swoon at your sight.
12. Candid Leda, for your holy love I will fight,
13. Celestial angel, your sacred heart I see,
14. Athena, in heaven you will be my delight.
Yours faithfully and eternally
Massimo Bandini
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