Otho The Great - Act V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFCGHIJKLMNOCAOPQ RMSTUAVWXCCLYZA2B2CE ZC2D2E2X XXF2XG2LH2CCXI2J2UK2 XAZL2M2UN2CK2O2XXP2Q 2R2F2J2S2XT2U2XXXXXL YXV2ZZZXJ2CKW2X2ZZY2 AXZ2ZJ2XA3XXXXZXB3XC 3D3E3X J2F3XB2G3XZCXH3ZI3XJ 3K3XXZXXXXCZZL3XJ2 ZXG2ZJ2K3ZUA3J2XOXZK 3XZFUXCZZM3ZB2ZZK3LL LK3XXZLXT2ZXLOXX2XXC LXZXLXZZZXZXN3FSCENE I | A |
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A part of the Forest | B |
Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE | C |
Auranthe Go no further not a step more thou art | D |
A master plague in the midst of miseries | E |
Go I fear thee I tremble every limb | F |
Who never shook before There's moody death | C |
In thy resolved looks Yes I could kneel | G |
To pray thee far away Conrad go go | H |
There yonder underneath the boughs I see | I |
Our horses | J |
Conrad Aye and the man | K |
Auranthe Yes he is there | L |
Go go no blood no blood go gentle Conrad | M |
Conrad Farewell | N |
Auranthe Farewell for this Heaven pardon you | O |
Exit AURANTHE | C |
Conrad If he survive one hour then may I die | A |
In unimagined tortures or breathe through | O |
A long life in the foulest sink of the world | P |
He dies 'tis well she do not advertise | Q |
The caitiff of the cold steel at his back | R |
Exit CONRAD | M |
Enter LUDOLPH and PAGE | S |
Ludolph Miss'd the way boy say not that on your peril | T |
Page Indeed indeed I cannot trace them further | U |
Ludolph Must I stop here Here solitary die | A |
Stifled beneath the thick oppressive shade | V |
Of these dull boughs this oven of dark thickets | W |
Silent without revenge pshaw bitter end | X |
A bitter death a suffocating death | C |
A gnawing silent deadly quiet death | C |
Escaped fled vanish'd melted into air | L |
She's gone I cannot clutch her no revenge | Y |
A muffled death ensnar'd in horrid silence | Z |
Suck'd to my grave amid a dreamy calm | A2 |
O where is that illustrious noise of war | B2 |
To smother up this sound of labouring breath | C |
This rustle of the trees | E |
AURANTHE shrieks at a distance | Z |
Page My Lord a noise | C2 |
This way hark | D2 |
Ludolph Yes yes A hope A music | E2 |
A glorious clamour How I live again Exeunt | X |
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SCENE II Another part of the Forest | X |
Enter ALBERT wounded | X |
Albert O for enough life to support me on | F2 |
To Otho's feet | X |
Enter LUDOLPH | G2 |
Ludolph Thrice villainous stay there | L |
Tell me where that detested woman is | H2 |
Or this is through thee | C |
Albert My good Prince with me | C |
The sword has done its worst not without worst | X |
Done to another Conrad has it home | I2 |
I see you know it all | J2 |
Ludolph Where is his sister | U |
AURANTHE rushes in | K2 |
Auranthe Albert | X |
Ludolph Ha There there He is the paramour I | A |
There hug him dying O thou innocence | Z |
Shrine him and comfort him at his last gasp | L2 |
Kiss down his eyelids Was he not thy love | M2 |
Wilt thou forsake him at his latest hour | U |
Keep fearful and aloof from his last gaze | N2 |
His most uneasy moments when cold death | C |
Stands with the door ajar to let him in | K2 |
Albert O that that door with hollow slam would close | O2 |
Upon me sudden for I cannot meet | X |
In all the unknown chambers of the dead | X |
Such horrors | P2 |
Ludolph Auranthe what can he mean | Q2 |
What horrors Is it not a joyous time | R2 |
Am I not married to a paragon | F2 |
'Of personal beauty and untainted soul' | J2 |
A blushing fair eyed Purity A Sylph | S2 |
Whose snowy timid hand has never sin'd | X |
Beyond a flower pluck'd white as itself | T2 |
Albert you do insult my Bride your Mistress | U2 |
To talk of horrors on our wedding night | X |
Albert Alas poor Prince I would you knew my heart | X |
'Tis not so guilty | X |
Ludolph Hear you he pleads not guilty | X |
You are not or if so what matters it | X |
You have escap'd me free as the dusk air | L |
Hid in the forest safe from my revenge | Y |
I cannot catch you You should laugh at me | X |
Poor cheated Ludolph make the forest hiss | V2 |
With jeers at me You tremble faint at once | Z |
You will come to again O Cockatrice | Z |
I have you Whither wander those fair eyes | Z |
To entice the Devil to your help that he | X |
May change you to a Spider so to crawl | J2 |
Into some cranny to escape my wrath | C |
Albert Sometimes the counsel of a dying man | K |
Doth operate quietly when his breath is gone | W2 |
Disjoin those hands part part do not destroy | X2 |
Each other forget her our miseries | Z |
Are equal shar'd and mercy is | Z |
Ludolph A boon | Y2 |
When one can compass it Auranthe try | A |
Your oratory your breath is not so hitch'd | X |
Aye stare for help | Z2 |
ALBERT groans and dies | Z |
There goes a spotted soul | J2 |
Howling in vain along the hollow night | X |
Hear him he calls you Sweet Auranthe come | A3 |
Auranthe Kill me | X |
Ludolph No What upon our Marriage night | X |
The earth would shudder at so foul a deed | X |
A fair Bride a sweet Bride an innocent Bride | X |
No we must revel it as 'tis in use | Z |
In times of delicate brilliant ceremony | X |
Come let me lead you to our halls again | B3 |
Nay linger not make no resistance sweet | X |
Will you Ah wretch thou canst not for I have | C3 |
The strength of twenty lions 'gainst a lamb | D3 |
Now one adieu for Albert come away | E3 |
Exeunt | X |
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SCENE III An inner Court of the Castle | J2 |
Enter SIGIFRED GONFRED and THEODORE meeting | F3 |
Theodore Was ever such a night | X |
Sigifred What horrors more | B2 |
Things unbeliev'd one hour so strange they are | G3 |
The next hour stamps with credit | X |
Theodore Your last news | Z |
Gonfred After the Page's story of the death | C |
Of Albert and Duke Conrad | X |
Sigifred And the return | H3 |
Of Ludolph with the Princess | Z |
Gonfred No more save | I3 |
Prince Gersa's freeing Abbot Ethelbert | X |
And the sweet lady fair Erminia | J3 |
From prison | K3 |
Theodore Where are they now hast yet heard | X |
Gonfred With the sad Emperor they are closeted | X |
I saw the three pass slowly up the stairs | Z |
The lady weeping the old Abbot cowl'd | X |
Sigifred What next | X |
Thedore I ache to think on't | X |
Gonfred Tis with fate | X |
Theodore One while these proud towers are hush'd as death | C |
Gonfred The next our poor Prince fills the arched rooms | Z |
With ghastly ravings | Z |
Sigifred I do fear his brain | L3 |
Gonfred I will see more Bear you so stout a heart | X |
Exeunt into the Castle | J2 |
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SCENE IV A Cabinet opening towards a Terrace | Z |
OTHO ERMINIA ETHELBERT and a Physician discovered | X |
Otho O my poor Boy my Son my Son My Ludolph | G2 |
Have ye no comfort for me ye Physicians | Z |
Of the weak Body and Soul | J2 |
Ethelbert Tis not the Medicine | K3 |
Either of heaven or earth can cure unless | Z |
Fit time be chosen to administer | U |
Otho A kind forbearance holy Abbot come | A3 |
Erminia here sit by me gentle Girl | J2 |
Give me thy hand hast thou forgiven me | X |
Erminia Would I were with the saints to pray for you | O |
Otho Why will ye keep me from my darling child | X |
Physician Forgive me but he must not see thy face | Z |
Otho Is then a father's countenance a Gorgon | K3 |
Hath it not comfort in it Would it not | X |
Console my poor Boy cheer him heal his spirits | Z |
Let me embrace him let me speak to him | F |
I will who hinders me Who's Emperor | U |
Physician You may not Sire 'twould overwhelm him quite | X |
He is so full of grief and passionate wrath | C |
Too heavy a sigh would kill him or do worse | Z |
He must be sav'd by fine contrivances | Z |
And most especially we must keep clear | M3 |
Out of his sight a Father whom he loves | Z |
His heart is full it can contain no more | B2 |
And do its ruddy office | Z |
Ethelbert Sage advice | Z |
We must endeavour how to ease and slacken | K3 |
The tight wound energies of his despair | L |
Not make them tenser | L |
Otho Enough I hear I hear | L |
Yet you were about to advise more I listen | K3 |
Ethelbert This learned doctor will agree with me | X |
That not in the smallest point should he be thwarted | X |
Or gainsaid by one word his very motions | Z |
Nods becks and hints should be obey'd with care | L |
Even on the moment so his troubled mind | X |
May cure itself | T2 |
Physician There is no other means | Z |
Otho Open the door let's hear if all is quiet | X |
Physician Beseech you Sire forbear | L |
Erminia Do do | O |
Otho I command | X |
Open it straight hush quiet my lost Boy | X2 |
My miserable Child | X |
Ludolph indistinctly without Fill fill my goblet | X |
Here's a health | C |
Erminia O close the door | L |
Otho Let let me hear his voice this cannot last | X |
And fain would I catch up his dying words | Z |
Though my own knell they be this cannot last | X |
O let me catch his voice for lo I hear | L |
This silence whisper me that he is dead | X |
It is so Gersa | Z |
Enter GERSA | Z |
Physician Say how fares the prince | Z |
Gersa More calm his features are less wild and flushed | X |
Once he complain'd of weariness | Z |
Physician Indeed | X |
'Tis good 'tis good let him but fall asleep | N3 |
That saves him | F |
Otho Gersa watch h | - |
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