Rushing towards the weekend :)

Blogging before I drive to Ann Arbor to get my daughter for the weekend  J

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CXLIII

  Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch

  One of her feather'd creatures broke away,

  Sets down her babe, and makes all swift dispatch

  In pursuit of the thing she would have stay;

  Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,

  Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent

  To follow that which flies before her face,

  Not prizing her poor infant's discontent;

  So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee,

  Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;

  But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,

  And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind;

    So will I pray that thou mayst have thy 'Will,'

    If thou turn back and my loud crying still.

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Great detailed extended simile, but I don’t completely understand why it isn’t as pleasing as most of his other similes.  The turns would be:  whilst at the beginning of the second quatrain, not at the beginning of line 8, so in the Petrarchan position (moving to complete the simile) and whilst at the beginning of line 10, but at the beginning of the following line (this one would be the main volta), so in the Shakespearean position, and if at the beginning of the final line.  More tomorrow.