Orlando Furioso Canto 13 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Orlando Furioso Canto 13 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
The Count Orlando of the damsel bland	B
Who loves Zerbino hears the piteous woes	C
Next puts to death the felons with his hand	B
Who pent her there Duke Aymon's daughter goes	C
Seeking Rogero where so large a band	B
The old Atlantes' magic walls enclose	C
Her he impounds deceived by fictions new	D
Agramant ranks his army for review	D
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I	-
Those ancient cavaliers right happy were	E
Born in an age when in the gloomy wood	F
In valley and in cave wherein the bear	G
Serpent or lion hid their savage brood	H
They could find that which now in palace rare	G
Is hardly found by judges proved and good	F
Women to wit who in their freshest days	I
Of beauty worthily deserve the praise	I
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II	-
Above I told you how a gentle maid	J
Orlando had discovered under ground	K
And asked by whom she thither was conveyed	J
Pursuing now my tale I tell how drowned	K
In grief her speech by many a sob delayed	J
The damsel fair in sweet and softest sound	K
Summing them with what brevity she might	L
Her ills recounted to Anglantes' knight	L
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III	-
'Though I am sure ' she said 'O cavalier	M
To suffer punishment for what I say	N
Because I know to him who pens me here	O
This woman quickly will the fact display	N
I would not but thou shouldst the story hear	O
And let my wretched life the forfeit pay	N
For what can wait me better than that he	P
My gaoler should one day my death decree	P
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IV	D
'Lo I am Isabel who once was styled	Q
The daughter of Gallicia's hapless king	R
I said aright who was but now the child	Q
No longer his of care and suffering	R
The fault of Love by whom I was beguiled	Q
For against him alone this charge I bring	R
Who sweetly at the first our wish applauds	S
And weaves in secret but deceit and frauds	S
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V	D
'Whilom I lived content in Fortune's smile	T
Rich blameless fair and young to sad reverse	U
Condemned I now am wretched poor and vile	T
And in worse case if any yet be worse	U
But it is fitting I to thee this while	T
From their first root my troubles should rehearse	U
And it will soothe me though of thee I borrow	V
No help that thou compassionate my sorrow	V
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VI	D
'My father in his city of Bayonne	W
To day will be twelve months a tourney dight	Q
Hence led by spreading rumour to our town	X
To joust from different lands came many a knight	Q
Mid these was it his manifest renown	X
Or was it love which so deceived my sight	Q
Praise in my eyes alone Zerbino won	Y
Who was the mighty king of Scotland's son	Y
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VII	D
'When him I after in the field espied	Q
Performing wondrous feats of chivalry	D
I was surprised by Love ere I descried	Q
That freedom in my Love so rash a guide	Q
I lay this unction to my phantasy	U
That no unseemly place my heart possest	Q
Fixed on the worthiest in the world and best	Q
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VIII	D
'In beauty and in valour's boast above	D
Those other lords the Scottish prince stood high	D
He showed me and I think be bore me love	D
And left no less an ardent flame than I	D
Nor lacked there one who did between us move	D
To speak our common wishes frequently	D
So could we still in heart and mind unite	Q
Although disjoined from one another's sight	Q
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IX	U
'Hence when concluded was the festal show	V
And to his home Zerbino was returned	Q
If thou know'st what is love thou well may'st know	V
How night and day I for the warrior yearned	Q
And was assured no less on him did prey	N
The flame that in his constant bosom burned	Q
He save a way to have me with him nought	Q
For solace of his restless passion sought	Q
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X	U
'For different faith forbade him on my side	Q
I was a saracen a Christian he	D
To ask me of my father as a bride	Q
By stealth he purposed to elope with me	D
Amid green fields our wealthy town beside	Q
I had a garden seated by the sea	D
Upon the pleasant shore from whence the eye	D
Might ocean and the hills about descry	N
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XI	D
'A fitting place to effect what different creed	Q
And law forbade us he esteemed this site	Q
And showed the order taken for the deed	Q
Which was to make our future life's delight	Q
And how near Santa Martha for our need	Q
A bark was with arm'd men in ambush dight	Q
Under Sir Odoric of Biscay's command	Q
A leader he approved by sea and land	Q
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XII	D
'Unable in his person this to do	Q
For by his father he was forced to wend	Q
In succour of the king of France in lieu	Q
This Odoric for the purpose he would send	Q
Chosen of all his faithful friends and true	Q
As his most faithful and his truest friend	Q
And such had been if benefits could bind	Q
And goodly deeds the friendship of mankind	Q
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XIII	D
'At the time fixed to bear me thence away	N
This chief would anchor on the destined ground	Q
And thus it was arrived the wished for day	N
Then I of them was in my garden found	Q
Sir Odoric at night with fair array	N
Of valiant men by land and sea renowned	Q
In the near river from his bark descends	D
And thence in silence to my garden wends	D
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XIV	D
'To the pitched bark with me his party sped	Q
Before the city knew what was at hand	Q
Some of the house disarmed and naked fled	Q
And some were slain while of the helpless band	Q
With me another part was captive led	Q
So was I severed from my native land	Q
Hoping in brief Zerbino to possess	D
I cannot tell thee with what happiness	D
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XV	D
'Scarcely was Mongia by our galley doubled	Q
Ere a squall took us on the larboard side	Q
Which round about the clear horizon troubled	Q
And stirred and tost heaven high the foaming tide	Q
Smote with a north west wind next ocean bubbled	Q
Which on her other beam the vessel plied	Q
This evermore increases with such force	D
Starboard or larboard boots not which our course	D
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XVI	D
'It steads not to strike sail nor lash the mast	Q
Lowered on the gang board nor our castles fell	Z
The bark in our despite is hurried fast	Q
Towards the pointed rocks about Rochelle	Z
Save He above assist us at the last	Q
The cruel storm will us ashore impel	Z
Driven thither by ill wind with mightier speed	Q
Than ever bow string gave to whistling reed	Q
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XVII	D
'Our peril well does the Biscayan note	Q
And tries what often has an evil end	Q
Lowers down the galley's skiff and when afloat	Q
Descends into it and makes me descend	Q
Two follow and a troop would throng the boat	Q
Did not the first prevent them and defend	Q
The entrance with their naked faulchions we	D
Sever the rope forthwith and put to sea	D
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XVIII	D
'Driven landward on the shore we safely light	Q
Who in the skiff embarked while of our band	Q
The rest in the split vessel sink outright	Q
Our goods sea swallowed all Upon the strand	Q
To Eternal Love To Goodness Infinite	Q
I offer up my thanks with outstretched hand	Q
That I was doomed not 'mid the watery roar	N
To perish nor behold Zerbino more	N
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XIX	D
'Though I had left on shipboard matters rare	N
And precious in their nature gem and vest	Q
So I might hope Zerbino's lot to share	N
I was content the sea should have the rest	Q
No dwelling on the beach appears nor there	N
Is any pathway seen by footsteps pressed	Q
Only a hill whose woody top is beat	Q
By ceaseless winds the waters bathe its feet	Q
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XX	D
'Here the fell tyrant Love aye prompt to range	A2
And faithless to his every promise still	B2
Who watches ever how he may derange	A2
And mar our every reasonable will	B2
Converts with woeful and disastrous change	A2
My comfort to despair my good to ill	B2
For he in whom Zerbino put his trust	Q
Cooled in his loyal faith and burned with lust	Q
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XXI	D
'Whether he his desire had nursed at sea	D
And had not dared exhibit it before	N
Or that it sprung from opportunity	D
Suggested by that solitary shore	N
Without more pause in that lone desert he	D
Would sate his greedy passion but forbore	N
Till he of one could rid him of the twain	C2
Who in the boat with us had scaped the main	C2
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XXII	D
'A man of Scotland he Almonio hight	Q
Who to Zerbino seemed great faith to bear	N
And as a perfect warrior by the knight	Q
Praised when to Odoric given his trust to share	N
To him the Spaniard said it were a slight	Q
If I unto R	N