Passa la nave mia colma d'oblio

The sonnet consist of 14 lines. In pertarch sonnet we can recognise the typical structure of Italian sonnet.

The first octave introduced the comparison between the speaker's life and a ship travelling in tormented seas at midnight. The skipper is worried by private thoughts that are so sad that he seems not to care even of the terrible weather conditions. He sighs, he has desires and hopes.

There follows the sestet where his pessimistic, sad mood are repeated: he weeps his regrets life as well as the conditions of the weather put his voyage at risk. In the endind tercet the speaker hides his feelings in the same way he can not see the stars. He seems unable to use reason and even worse to be able to reach the harbor.

It goes without saying that there is an apparent analogy between the poet's life and the voyage progress. Unfortunatly such life dosen't sound easy but hides difficulties, problems, torments that all together seem to make the poet unable to come to an autonomous solution of his pains.