While this frottola does not have the worldy, sophisticated text and mood

of the majority of the genre, it still displays many of the characteristics,

a very catchy, memorable melody, the same repetition patterns, and

the music serves as the vehicle for the text. And even while the text's

mood is different from most frottolas, like them, it uses multiple similes

and metaphors, many seeing to echo proverbs. "I am the tree the wind

casts to the earth, because I no longer have roots...I will end in tears

and sorrows, like a ship wrecked on a rock, with every beam finally

broken, because it held firm."

As the text above indicates, this work is different from most frottlas

in its melancholy, even despairing tone. The singer deplores

"my blind, hard fate" in the haunting melody, which suggests, in

the way that the phrases rise and fall, that there is still an

element of yearning in the singer's emotions. The whole piece is

very effective, and one of the loveliest of the frottola genre.

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