Orlando Furioso Canto 10 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso Canto 10 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Another love assails Bireno's breast	B
Who leaves one night Olympia on the shore	C
To Logistilla's holy realm addressed	B
Rogero goes nor heeds Alcina more	C
Him of that flying courser repossest	B
The hippogryph on airy voyage bore	C
Whence he the good Rinaldo's levy sees	D
And next Angelica beholds and frees	D
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I	-
Of all the loves of all fidelity	B
Yet proved of all the constant hearts and true	E
Of all the lovers in felicity	B
Or sorrow faithful found a famous crew	E
To Olympia I would give the first degree	B
Rather than second if this be not due	E
I well may say that hers no tale is told	B
Of truer love in present times or old	B
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II	-
And this she by so many proofs and clear	F
Had made apparent to the Zealand lord	B
No woman's faith more certain could appear	F
To man though he her open heart explored	B
And if fair truth such spirits should endear	G
And they in mutual love deserve reward	B
Bireno as himself nay he above	H
Himself I say should kind Olympia love	H
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III	-
Not only should he nevermore deceive	I
Her for another were that woman she	B
Who so made Europe and wide Asia grieve	I
Or fairer yet if one more fair there be	B
But rather that quit her the light should leave	I
And what is sweet to taste touch hear and see	B
And life and fame and all beside if aught	B
More precious can in truth be styled or thought	B
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IV	I
If her Bireno loved as she had loved	B
Bireno if her love he did repay	J
With faith like hers and still with truth unmoved	B
Veered not his shifting sail another way	J
Or ingrate for such service cruel proved	B
For such fair love and faith I now will say	J
And you with lips comprest and eye brows bent	B
Shall listen to the tale for wonderment	B
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V	I
And when you shall have heard the impiety	B
Which of such passing goodness was the meed	B
Woman take warning from this perfidy	B
And let none make a lover's word her creed	B
Mindless that God does all things hear and see	B
The lover eager his desires to speed	B
Heaps promises and vows aye prompt to swear	K
Which afterwards all winds disperse in air	K
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VI	I
The promises and empty vows dispersed	B
In air by winds all dissipated go	L
After these lovers have the greedy thirst	B
Appeased with which their fevered palates glow	L
In this example which I offer versed	B
Their prayers and tears to credit be more slow	L
Cheaply dear ladies mine is wisdom bought	B
By those who wit at other's cost are taught	B
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VII	I
Of those in the first flower of youth beware	K
Whose visage is so soft and smooth to sight	B
For past as soon as bred their fancies are	M
Like a straw fire their every appetite	B
So the keen hunter follows up the hare	K
In heat and cold on shore or mountain height	B
Nor when 'tis taken more esteems the prize	N
And only hurries after that which flies	N
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VIII	I
Such is the practise of these striplings who	E
What time you treat them with austerity	B
Love and revere you and such homage do	E
As those who pay their service faithfully	B
But vaunt no sooner victory than you	E
From mistresses shall servants grieve to be	B
And mourn to see the fickle love they owed	B
From you diverted and elsewhere bestowed	B
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IX	N
I not for this for that were wrong opine	O
That you should cease to love for you without	B
A lover like uncultivated vine	O
Would be that has no prop to wind about	B
But the first down I pray you to decline	O
To fly the volatile inconstant rout	B
To make your choice the riper fruits among	P
Nor yet to gather what too long has hung	P
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X	N
A daughter they have found above was said	B
Of the proud king who ruled the Friesland state	B
That with Bireno's brother was to wed	B
As far as rumour tells but to relate	B
The truth a longing in Bireno bred	B
The sight of food so passing delicate	B
And he to talk his palate deemed would be	B
For other's sake a foolish courtesy	B
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XI	B
The gentle damsel had not past fourteen	Q
Was beautiful and fresh and like a rose	N
When this first opening from its bud is seen	Q
And with the vernal sun expands and grows	N
To say Bireno loved the youthful queen	Q
Were little with less blaze lit tinder glows	N
Or ripened corn wherever envious hand	B
Of foe amid the grain has cast a brand	B
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XII	N
Than that which on Bireno's bosom fed	B
And to his marrow burned when weeping sore	C
The fate of her unhappy father dead	B
He saw her bathed in ceaseless tears deplore	C
And as cold water on the cauldron shed	B
Shops short the bubbling wave which boiled before	C
So was the raging rife Olympia blew	E
Within his breast extinguished by a new	E
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XIII	N
Nor feels Bireno mere satiety	B
He loathes her so he ill endures her sight	B
And if his hope he long deferred will die	B
For other such his fickle appetite	B
Yet till the day prefixed to satisfy	B
His fond desire so feigns the wary knight	B
Olympia less to love than to adore	C
He seems and but her pleasure to explore	C
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XIV	B
And if the other he too much caress	N
Who cannot but caress her there are none	R
See evil in the deed but rather guess	N
It is in pity is in goodness done	R
Since to raise up and comfort in distress	N
Whom Fortune's wheel beats down in changeful run	R
Was never blamed with glory oftener paid	B
So much the more a young a harmless maid	B
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XV	B
Almighty God how fallible and vain	S
Is human judgment dimmed by clouds obscure	T
Bireno's actions impious and profane	S
By others are reputed just and pure	T
Already stooping to their oars the train	S
Have loosed his vessel from the port secure	T
And with the duke and his companions steer	F
For Zealand through the deep with meery cheer	F
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XVI	B
Already Holland and its headlands all	U
Are left astern and now descried no more	C
Since to shun Friesland they to larboard hawl	U
And keep their course more nigh the Scottish shore	C
When they are overtaken by a squall	U
And drive three days the open sea before	C
Upon the third when now near eventide	B
A barren and unpeopled isle is spied	B
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XVII	B
As soon as they were harboured in a hight	B
Olympia landed and the board was spread	B
She there contented with the faithless knight	B
Supt unsuspecting any cause for dread	B
Thence with Bireno where a tent was pight	B
In pleasant place repaired and went to bed	B
The others of their train returned abroad	B
And rested in their ship in haven moored	B
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XVIII	B
The fear and late sea sorrow which had weighed	B
So long upon the dame and broke her rest	B
The finding herself safe in greenwood shade	B
Removed from noise and for her tranquil breast	B
Knowing her lover was beside her laid	B
No further thoughts no further cares molest	B
Olympia lap in slumber so profound	B
No sheltered bear or dormouse sleeps more sound	B
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XIX	N
The lover false who hatching treason lies	N
Stole from his bed in silence when he knew	E
She slept his clothes he in a bundle ties	N
Nor other raiment on his body threw	E
Then issuing forth from the pavilion hies	N
As if on new born wings towards his crew	E
Who roused unmoor without a cry as he	B
Commands and loosen thence and put to sea	B
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XX	B
Behind the land was left and there to pine	O
Olympia who yet slept the woods among	P
Till from her gilded wheels the frosty rhine	O
Aurora upon earth beneath had flung	P
And the old woe beside the tumbling brine	O
Lamenting halcyons mournful descant sung	P
When she 'twixt sleep and waking made a strain	S
To reach her loved Bireno but in vain	S
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XXI	B
She no one found the dame her arm withdrew	E
She tried again yet no one found she spread	B
Both arms now here now there and sought anew	E
Now either leg but yet no better sped	B
Fear banished sleep she oped her eyes in view	E
Was nothing she no more her widowed bed	B
Would keep but from the couch in fury sprung	P
And headlong forth from the pavilion flung	P
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XXII	B
And seaward ran her visage tearing sore	C
Presaging and now certain of her plight	B
She beat her bosom and her tresses tore	C
And looked the moon was shining if she might	B
Discover any thing beside the shore	C
Nor save the shore was any thing in sight	B
She calls Bireno and the caverns round	B
Pitying her grief Bireno's name rebound	B
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XXIII	B
On the far shore there rose a rock below	U
Scooped by the breaker's beating frequently	B
The cliff was hollowed under	V