Orlando Furioso Canto 12 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Orlando Furioso Canto 12 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Orlando full of rage pursues a knight	B
Who bears by force his lady love away	C
And comes where old Atlantes by his sleight	B
Had raised a dome Rogero there to stay	C
Here too Rogero comes where getting sight	B
Of his lost love the County strives in fray	C
With fierce Ferrau and after slaughter fell	D
Amid the paynim host finds Isabel	D
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I	-
Ceres when from the Idaean dame in haste	E
Returning to the lonely valley where	F
Enceladus the Aetnaean mountain placed	E
On his bolt smitten flanks is doomed to bear	F
Her girl she found not on that pathless waste	E
By her late quitted having rent her hair	F
And marked cheeks eyes and breast with livid signs	G
At the end of her lament tore up two pines	G
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II	-
And lit at Vulcan's fire the double brand	H
And gave them virtue never to be spent	I
And afterwards with one in either hand	H
Drawn by two dragons in her chariot went	I
Searching the forest hill and level land	H
Field valley running stream or water pent	I
The land and sea and having searched the shell	D
Of earth above descended into hell	D
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III	-
Had Roland of Eleusis' deity	J
The sovereign power possessed no less than will	K
He for Angelica had land and sea	J
Ransacked and wood and field and pool and rill	K
Heaven and Oblivion's bottom but since he	J
Had not his pressing purpose to fulfil	K
Her dragon and her car the unwearied knight	B
Pursued the missing maid as best he might	B
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IV	-
Through France he sought her and will seek her through	L
The realms of Italy and of Almayn	M
And thence through the Castiles both old and new	M
So passing into Libya out of Spain	M
While bold Orlando has this plan in view	M
He hears or thinks he hears a voice complain	M
He forward spurs and sees on mighty steed	N
A warrior trot before him on the mead	N
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V	-
Who in his arms a captive damsel bears	O
Sore grieving and across the pommel laid	P
She weeps and struggles and the semblance wears	O
Of cruel woe and ever calls for aid	P
Upon Anglantes' prince and now appears	Q
To him as he surveys the youthful maid	P
She for whom night and day with ceaseless pain	M
Inside and out he France had searched in vain	M
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VI	-
I say not is but that she to the sight	B
Seems the Angelica he loves so dear	R
He who is lady love and goddess' flight	B
Beholds borne off in such afflicted cheer	R
Impelled by fury foul and angry spite	B
Calls back with horrid voice the cavalier	R
Calls back the cavalier and threats in vain	M
And Brigliadoro drives with flowing rein	M
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VII	-
That felon stops not nor to him replies	S
On his great gain intent his glorious prey	C
And with such swiftness through the greenwood hies	S
Wind would not overtake him on his way	C
The one pursues while him the other flies	S
And with lament resounds the thicket gray	C
They issue in a spacious mead on which	T
Appears a lofty mansion rare and rich	T
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VIII	-
Of various marbles wrought with subtle care	F
Is the proud palace He who fast in hold	U
Bears off upon his arm the damsel fair	F
Sore pricking enters at a gate of gold	U
Nor Brigliador is far behind the pair	F
Backed by Orlando angry knight and bold	U
Entering around Orlando turns his eyes	S
Yet neither cavalier nor damsel spies	S
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IX	S
He suddenly dismounts and thundering fares	S
Through the inmost palace seeking still his foe	-
And here and there in restless rage repairs	S
Till he has seen each bower each galleried row	-
With the same purpose he ascends the stairs	S
Having first vainly searched each room below	-
Nor spends less labour on his task intent	I
Above than he beneath had vainly spent	I
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X	S
Here beds are seen adorned with silk and gold	U
Nor of partition aught is spied or wall	K
For these and floor beneath throughout that hold	U
Are hid by curtains and by carpets all	K
Now here now there returns Orlando bold	U
Nor yet can glad his eyes in bower or hall	K
With the appearance of the royal maid	P
Or the foul thief by whom she was conveyed	P
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XI	S
This while as here and there in fruitless pain	M
He moves oppressed with thought and trouble sore	V
Gradasso Brandimart and him of Spain	M
Ferrau he finds with Sacripant and more	V
Who ever toiling like himself in vain	M
Above that building and beneath explore	V
And as they wander curse with one accord	W
The malice of the castle's viewless lord	W
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XII	S
All in pursuit of the offender speed	N
And upon him some charge of robbery lay	C
One knight complains that he has stolen his steed	N
One that he has purloined his lady gay	C
Other accuses him of other deed	N
And thus within the enchanted cage they stay	C
Nor can depart while in the palace pent	I
Many have weeks and months together spent	I
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XIII	S
Roland when he round that strange dome had paced	E
Four times or six still vainly seeking said	X
Within himself at last 'I here might waste	E
My time and trouble still in vain delayed	P
While haply her the robber whom I chased	E
Has far away through other gate conveyed '	-
So thinking from the house he issued out	Y
Into the mead which girt the dome about	Y
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XIV	-
While Roland wanders round the sylvan Hall	K
Still holding close his visage to the ground	Z
To see if recent print or trace withal	K
Can right or left upon the turf be found	Z
He from a neighbouring window hears a call	K
And looks and thinks he hears that voice's sound	Z
And thinks he sees the visage by which he	S
Was so estranged from what he wont to be	S
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XV	-
He thinks he hears Angelica and she	S
'Help help ' entreating cries and weeping sore	V
'More than for life and soul alas of thee	S
Protection for my honour I implore	V
Then shall it in my Roland's presence be	S
Ravished by this foul robber Oh before	V
Me to such miserable fate you leave	-
Let me from your own hand my death receive '	-
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XVI	-
These words repeated once and yet again	M
Made Roland through each chamber far and near	R
Return with passion and with utmost pain	M
But tempered with high hope Sometimes the peer	R
Stopt in his search and heard a voice complain	M
Which seemed to be Angelica's if here	A2
The restless warrior stand it sounds from there	F
And calls for help he knows not whence nor where	F
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XVII	-
Returning to Rogero left I said	X
When through a gloomy path upon his steed	N
Following the giant and the dame who fled	X
He from the wood had issued on the mead	N
I say that he arrived where Roland dread	X
Arrived before him if I rightly read	X
The giant through the golden portal passed	B2
Rogero close behind who followed fast	B2
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XVIII	-
As soon as he his foot has lifted o'er	C2
The threshold he through court and gallery spies	S
Nor sees the giant or the lady more	V
And vainly glances here and there his eyes	S
He up and down returns with labour sore	V
Yet not for that his longing satisfies	S
Nor can imagine where the felon thief	-
Has hid himself and dame in space so brief	-
	-
XIX	S
After four times or five he so had wound	Z
Above below through bower and gallery fair	F
He yet returned and having nothing found	Z
Searched even to the space beneath the stair	F
At length in hope they in the woodlands round	Z
Might be he sallied but the voice which there	F
Roland recalled did him no less recall	K
And made as well return within the Hall	K
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XX	S
One voice one shape which to Anglantes' peer	R
Seemed his Angelica beseeching aid	P
Seemed to Rogero Dordogne's lady dear	R
Who him a truant to himself had made	P
If with Gradasso or with other near	R
He spake of those who through the palace strayed	P
To all of them the vision seen apart	D2
Seemed that which each had singly most at heart	D2
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XXI	S
This was a new and unwonted spell	K
Which the renowned Atlantes had composed	E2
That in this toil this pleasing pain might dwell	K
So long Rogero by these walls enclosed	E2
From him should pass away the influence fell	K
Influence which him to early death exposed	E2
Though vain his magic tower of steel and vain	M
Alcina's art Atlantes plots again	M
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XXII	S
Not only he but others who stood high	-
For valour and in France had greatest fame	F2
That by t	S