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 LXZXLXZZZXZXN3F| SCENE 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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