I should have seen it, but I was on such affair,
Seeing the true king crown'd here in Estampa.[12]
Arnaut's tendency to lengthen the latter lines of the strophe after the
diesis shows in: Er vei vermeils, vertz, blaus, blancs, gruocs, the
strophe form being:
Vermeil, green, blue, peirs, white, cobalt,
Close orchards, hewis, holts, hows, vales,
And the bird-song that whirls and turns
Morning and late with sweet accord,
Bestir my heart to put my song in sheen
T'equal that flower which hath such properties,
It seeds in joy, bears love, and pain ameises.
The last cryptic allusion is to the quasi-allegorical descriptions of
the tree of love in some long poem like the Romaunt of the Rose.
Dante takes the next poem as a model of canzo construction; and he
learned much from its melody:
Sols sui qui sai lo sobrefan quern sortz
Al cor d'amor sofren per sobramar,
Car mos volers es tant ferms et entiers
Cane no s'esduis de celliei ni s'estors
Cui encubric al prim vezer e puois:
Qu'ades ses lieis die a lieis cochos motz,
Pois quan la vei non sai, tant l'ai, que dire.