CANTO 51
Love who lives in the heart
as fallow lives in the meadow
as kittycat purrs on the pillow
as spouses rock in one boat
breaks out upon such instigation
as She leaves in her wake:
unclad and clad at once, slaked
& unslaked, Magus of intuition,
Odalisque of sexual adventure,
whose promtings bend the bars
so the Love within escapes-
in terror to crawl back to its indenture
or in ecstasy to romp among the stars.
Either way, the heart is built for breaks.
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D.B. in a rhetorical mode. Petrarch himself is unmitigatedly rhetorical, so it's hard to avoid the infection.