Otho The Great - Act Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHIJKLGMNOPQR STUBVBWXBGVUYYZYVA2A B2YVC2GD2E2E2F2G2YYV YVYYBH2VI2GJ2K2E2YE2 E2BE2L2BMM2N2YYYY WYO2VYBP2VGE2Q2R2GS2 YE2T2AYU2T2E2ABV2E2T 2W2E2X2C2E2P2E2T2E2P 2Y2YBE2T2YRZ2YBYN2T2 E2VYT2VYAC2P2T2T2N2G E2YBE2YBT2T2T2T2E2T2 YC2C2YE2E2AT2YT2YJ2B YYOC2E2T2E2C2T2YT2VY T2T2T2GC2T2GBE2T2YBV T2T2WYVVBT2T2VBT2BVA 3GVE2| SCENE I | A |
| The Country | B |
| Enter ALBERT | C |
| Albert O that the earth were empty as when Cain | D |
| Had no perplexity to hide his head | E |
| Or that the sword of some brave enemy | B |
| Had put a sudden stop to my hot breath | F |
| And hurl'd me down the illimitable gulph | G |
| Of times past unremember'd Better so | H |
| Than thus fast limed in a cursed snare | I |
| The white limbs of a wanton This the end | J |
| Of an aspiring life My boyhood past | K |
| In feud with wolves and bears when no eye saw | L |
| The solitary warfare fought for love | G |
| Of honour 'mid the growling wilderness | M |
| My sturdier youth maturing to the sword | N |
| Won by the syren trumpets and the ring | O |
| Of shields upon the pavement when bright mail'd | P |
| Henry the Fowler pass'd the streets of Prague | Q |
| Was't to this end I louted and became | R |
| The menial of Mars and held a spear | S |
| Sway'd by command as corn is by the wind | T |
| Is it for this I now am lifted up | U |
| By Europe's throned Emperor to see | B |
| My honour be my executioner | V |
| My love of fame my prided honesty | B |
| Put to the torture for confessional | W |
| Then the damn'd crime of blurting to the world | X |
| A woman's secret Though a fiend she be | B |
| Too tender of my ignominious life | G |
| But then to wrong the generous Emperor | V |
| In such a searching point were to give up | U |
| My soul for foot ball at Hell's holiday | Y |
| I must confess and cut my throat to day | Y |
| To morrow Ho some wine | Z |
| Enter SIGIFRED | Y |
| Sigifred A fine humour | V |
| Albert Who goes there Count Sigifred Ha Ha | A2 |
| Sigifred What man do you mistake the hollow sky | A |
| For a throng 'd tavern and these stubbed trees | B2 |
| For old serge hangings me your humble friend | Y |
| For a poor waiter Why man how you stare | V |
| What gipsies have you been carousing with | C2 |
| No no more wine methinks you've had enough | G |
| Albert You well may laugh and banter What a fool | D2 |
| An injury may make of a staid man | E2 |
| You shall know all anon | E2 |
| Sigifred Some tavern brawl | F2 |
| Albert 'Twas with some people out of common reach | G2 |
| Revenge is difficult | Y |
| Sigifred I am your friend | Y |
| We meet again to day and can confer | V |
| Upon it For the present I'm in haste | Y |
| Albert Whither | V |
| Sigifred To fetch King Gersa to the feast | Y |
| The Emperor on this marriage is so hot | Y |
| Pray Heaven it end not in apoplexy | B |
| The very porters as I pass'd the doors | H2 |
| Heard his loud laugh and answer 'd in full choir | V |
| I marvel Albert you delay so long | I2 |
| From those bright revelries go show yourself | G |
| You may be made a duke | J2 |
| Albert Aye very like | K2 |
| Pray what day has his Highness fix'd upon | E2 |
| Sigifred For what | Y |
| Albert The marriage What else can I mean | E2 |
| Sigifred To day O I forgot you could not know | E2 |
| The news is scarce a minute old with me | B |
| Albert Married to day To day You did not say so | E2 |
| Sigifred Now while I speak to you their comely heads | L2 |
| Are bow'd before the mitre | B |
| Albert O Monstrous | M |
| Sigifred What is this | M2 |
| Albert Nothing Sigifred Farewell | N2 |
| We'll meet upon our subject Farewell count | Y |
| Exit | Y |
| Sigifred Is this clear headed Albert He brain turned | Y |
| Tis as portentous as a meteor Exit | Y |
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| SCENE II An Apartment in the Castle | W |
| Enter as from the Marriage OTHO LUDOLPH AURANTHE CONRAD | Y |
| Nobles Knights Ladies c Music | O2 |
| Otho Now Ludolph Now Auranthe Daughter fair | V |
| What can I find to grace your nuptial day | Y |
| More than my love and these wide realms in fee | B |
| Ludolph I have too much | P2 |
| Auranthe And I my liege by far | V |
| Ludolph Auranthe I have O my bride my love | G |
| Not all the gaze upon us can restrain | E2 |
| My eyes too long poor exiles from thy face | Q2 |
| From adoration and my foolish tongue | R2 |
| From uttering soft responses to the love | G |
| I see in thy mute beauty beaming forth | S2 |
| Fair creature bless me with a single word | Y |
| All mine | E2 |
| Auranthe Spare spare me my Lord I swoon else | T2 |
| Ludolph Soft beauty by to morrow I should die | A |
| Wert thou not mine They talk apart | Y |
| First Lady How deep she has bewitch'd him | U2 |
| First Knight Ask you for her recipe for love philtres | T2 |
| Second Lady They hold the Emperor in admiration | E2 |
| Otho If ever king was happy that am I | A |
| What are the cities 'yond the Alps to me | B |
| The provinces about the Danube's mouth | V2 |
| The promise of fair soil beyond the Rhone | E2 |
| Or routing out of Hyperborean hordes | T2 |
| To those fair children stars of a new age | W2 |
| Unless perchance I might rejoice to win | E2 |
| This little ball of earth and chuck it them | X2 |
| To play with | C2 |
| Auranthe Nay my Lord I do not know | E2 |
| Ludolph Let me not famish | P2 |
| Otho to Conrad Good Franconia | E2 |
| You heard what oath I sware as the sun rose | T2 |
| That unless Heaven would send me back my son | E2 |
| My Arab no soft music should enrich | P2 |
| The cool wine kiss'd off with a soldier's smack | Y2 |
| Now all my empire barter 'd for one feast | Y |
| Seems poverty | B |
| Conrad Upon the neighbour plain | E2 |
| The heralds have prepar'd a royal lists | T2 |
| Your knights found war proof in the bloody field | Y |
| Speed to the game | R |
| Otho Well Ludolph what say you | Z2 |
| Ludolph My lord | Y |
| Otho A tourney | B |
| Conrad Or if't please you best | Y |
| Ludolph I want no morel | N2 |
| First Lady He soars | T2 |
| Second Lady Past all reason | E2 |
| Ludolph Though heaven's choir | V |
| Should in a vast circumference descend | Y |
| And sing for my delight I'd stop my ears | T2 |
| Though bright Apollo's car stood burning here | V |
| And he put out an arm to bid me mount | Y |
| His touch an immortality not I | A |
| This earth this palace this room Auranthe | C2 |
| Otho This is a little painful just too much | P2 |
| Conrad if he flames longer in this wise | T2 |
| I shall believe in wizard woven loves | T2 |
| And old romances but I'll break the spell | N2 |
| Ludolph | G |
| Conrad He will be calm anon | E2 |
| Ludolph You call'd | Y |
| Yes yes yes I offend You must forgive me | B |
| Not being quite recover'd from the stun | E2 |
| Of your large bounties A tourney is it not | Y |
| A senet heard faintly | B |
| Conrad The trumpets reach us | T2 |
| Ethelbert without On your peril sirs | T2 |
| Detain us | T2 |
| First Voice without Let not the abbot pass | T2 |
| Second Voice without No | E2 |
| On your lives | T2 |
| First Voice without Holy Father you must not | Y |
| Ethelbert without Otho | C2 |
| Otho Who calls on Otho | C2 |
| Ethelhert without Ethelbert | Y |
| Otho Let him come in | E2 |
| Enter ETHELBERT leading in ERMINIA | E2 |
| Thou cursed abbot why | A |
| Hast brought pollution to our holy rites | T2 |
| Hast thou no fear of hangman or the faggot | Y |
| Ludolph What portent what strange prodigy is this | T2 |
| Conrad Away | Y |
| Ethelbert You Duke | J2 |
| Ermmia Albert has surely fail'd me | B |
| Look at the Emperor's brow upon me bent | Y |
| Ethelbert A sad delay | Y |
| Conrad Away thou guilty thing | O |
| Ethelbert You again Duke Justice most mighty Otho | C2 |
| You go to your sister there and plot again | E2 |
| A quick plot swift as thought to save your heads | T2 |
| For lo the toils are spread around your den | E2 |
| The word is all agape to see dragg'd forth | C2 |
| Two ugly monsters | T2 |
| Ludolph What means he my lord | Y |
| Conrad I cannot guess | T2 |
| Ethelbert Best ask your lady sister | V |
| Whether the riddle puzzles her beyond | Y |
| The power of utterance | T2 |
| Conrad Foul barbarian cease | T2 |
| The Princess faints | T2 |
| Ludolph Stab him sweetest wife | G |
| Attendants bear off AURANTHE | C2 |
| Erminia Alas | T2 |
| Ethelbert Your wife | G |
| Ludolph Aye Satan does that yerk ye | B |
| Ethelbert Wife so soon | E2 |
| Ludolph Aye wife Oh impudence | T2 |
| Thou bitter mischief Venomous mad priest | Y |
| How dar'st thou lift those beetle brows at me | B |
| Me the prince Ludolph in this presence here | V |
| Upon my marriage day and scandalize | T2 |
| My joys with such opprobrious surprise SO | T2 |
| Wife Why dost linger on that syllable | W |
| As if it were some demon's name pronounc'd | Y |
| To summon harmful lightning and make roar | V |
| The sleepy thunder Hast no sense of fear | V |
| No ounce of man in thy mortality | B |
| Tremble for at my nod the sharpen'd axe | T2 |
| Will make thy bold tongue quiver to the roots | T2 |
| Those grey lids wink and thou not know it more | V |
| Ethelbert O poor deceived Prince I pity thee | B |
| Great Otho I claim justice | T2 |
| Ludolph Thou shalt hav 't | B |
| Thine arms from forth a pulpit of hot fire | V |
| Shall sprawl distracted O that that dull cowl | A3 |
| Were some most sensitive portion of thy life | G |
| That I might give it to my hounds to tear | V |
| Thy girdle some fine zealous pain | E2 |
John Keats
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