He expands the simple suggestions of his model; and employs the artifices of rhetoric where Tasso yielded to inspiration.
One example will suffice to contrast the methods of the spontaneous and the reflective poet.

Tasso with divine impulse had exclaimed: Odi quell'usignuolo, Che va di ramo in ramo Cantando: Io amo, io amo! This, in Guarini's hands, becomes: Quell'augellin, che canta Si dolcemente, e lascivetto vola Or dall'abete al faggio, Ed or dal faggio al mirto, S'avesse umano spirto, Direbbe: Ardo d'amore, ardo d'amore.
Here a laborious effort of the constructive fancy has been substituted for a single flash of sympathetic imagination.

Tasso does not doubt that the nightingale is pouring out her love in song.

Guarini says that if the bird had human soul, it would exclaim, _Ardo d'amore_.

Tasso sees it flying from branch to branch.