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Orlando Furioso Canto 15 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Round about Paris every where are spread	B
The assailing hosts of Africa and Spain	C
Astolpho home by Logistilla sped	B
Binds first Caligorantes with his chain	C
Next from Orrilo's trunk divides the head	B
With whom Sir Aquilant had warred in vain	C
And Gryphon bold next Sansonet discerns	D
Ill tidings of his lady Gryphon learns	D
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I	-
Though Conquest fruit of skill or fortune be	E
To conquer always is a glorious thing	F
'Tis true indeed a bloody victory	E
Is to a chief less honour wont to bring	F
And that fair field is famed eternally	E
And he who wins it merits worshipping	F
Who saving from all harm his own without	G
Loss to his followers puts the foe to rout	G
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II	-
You sir earned worthy praise when you o'erbore	E
The lion of such might by sea and so	H
Did by him where he guarded either shore	E
From Francolino to the mouth of Po	H
That I though yet again I heard him roar	E
If you were present should my fear forego	H
How fields are fitly won was then made plain	C
For we were rescued and your foemen slain	C
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III	-
This was the Paynim little skilled to do	I
Who was but daring to his proper loss	J
And to the moat impelled his meiny who	I
One and all perished in the burning fosse	K
The mighty gulf had not contained the crew	I
But that devouring those who sought to cross	J
Them into dust the flame reduced that room	L
Might be for all within the crowded tomb	L
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IV	-
Of twenty thousand warriors thither sent	M
Died nineteen thousand in the fiery pit	N
Who to the fosse descended ill content	M
But so their leader willed of little wit	N
Extinguished amid such a blaze and spent	M
By the devouring flame the Christians lit	N
And Rodomont occasion of their woes	O
Exempted from the mighty mischief goes	O
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V	-
For he to the inner bank by foes possest	N
Across the ditch had vaulted wonderously	E
Had he within it been among the rest	N
It sure had been his last assault His eye	-
He turns and when the wild fires which infest	N
The infernal vale he sees ascend so high	-
And hears his people's moan and dying screams	P
With imprecations dread he Heaven blasphemes	P
	-
VI	-
This while a band King Agramant had brought	N
To make a fierce assault upon a gate	N
For while the cruel battle here was fought	N
Wherein so many sufferers met their fate	N
This haply unprovided had he thought	N
With fitting guard Upon the monarch wait	N
King Bambirago 'mid his knights of price	P
And Baliverso sink of every vice	P
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VII	-
And Corineus of Mulga Prusion	C
The wealthy monarch of the blessed isles	P
Malabuferzo he who fills the throne	C
Of Fez where a perpetual summer smiles	P
And other noble lords and many a one	C
Well armed and tried and others 'mid their files	P
Naked and base whose hearts in martial fields	P
Had found no shelter from a thousand shields	P
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VIII	-
But all things counter to the hopes ensue	P
Of Agramant upon his side within	C
In person girded by a gallant crew	P
Is Charlemagne with many a paladin	C
Ogier the Duke King Salamon the two	P
Guidos are seen and either Angelin	C
Bavaria's duke and Ganelon are here	E
Avino Avolio Otho and Berlinghier	E
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IX	P
And of inferior count withal a horde	N
Of Lombards French and Germans without end	N
Who every one in presence of his lord	N
To rank among the valiantest contend	N
This will I in another place record	N
Who here a mighty duke perforce attend	N
Who signs to me from far and prays that I	-
Will not omit him in my history	E
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X	P
'Tis time that I should measure back my way	Q
Thither where I Astolpho left of yore	E
Who in long exile loathing more to stay	Q
Burnt with desire to tread his native shore	E
As hopes to him had given the sober fay	Q
Who quelled Alcina by her better lore	E
She with all care would send the warrior back	R
By the securest and the freest track	R
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XI	E
And thus by her a barque is fitted out	N
A better galley never ploughed the sea	E
And Logistilla wills for aye in doubt	N
Of hinderance from Alcina's treachery	E
That good Andronica with squadron stout	N
And chaste Sophrosina with him shall be	E
Till to the Arabian Sea beneath their care	E
Or to the Persian Gulf he safe repair	E
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XII	E
By Scyth and Indian she prefers the peer	E
Should coast and by the Nabataean reign	C
Content he after such a round should veer	E
For Persian gulf or Erithraean main	C
Rather than for that Boreal palace steer	E
Where angry winds aye vex the rude domain	C
So ill at seasons favoured by the sun	C
That there for months together light is none	C
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XIII	E
Next when she all in readiness espied	N
Her license to depart the prudent fay	Q
Accorded to the duke first fortified	N
With counsel as to things too long to say	Q
And that he might no more by charms be stayed	N
In place from whence he could not wend his way	Q
Him with a useful book and fair purveyed	N
And ever for her love to wear it prayed	N
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XIV	Q
How man should guard himself from magic cheats	E
The book instructed which the fay bestowed	N
At the end or the beginning where it treats	E
Of such an index and appendix showed	N
Another gift which in its goodly feats	E
All other gifts excelled to her he owed	N
This was a horn which made whatever wight	N
Should hear its clang betake himself to flight	N
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XV	Q
I say the horn is of such horrid sound	N
That wheresoe'er 'tis heard all fly for fear	E
Nor in the world is one of heart so sound	N
That would not fly should he the bugle hear	E
Wind thunder and the shock which rives the ground	N
Come not in aught the hideous clangour near	E
With thanks did the good Englishman receive	Q
The gift and of the fairy took his leave	Q
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XVI	Q
Quitting the port and smoother waves they stand	N
To sea with favouring wind which blows astern	C
And coasting round the rich and populous land	N
Of odoriferous Ind the vessels turn	C
Opening a thousand isles on either hand	N
Scattered about that sea till they discern	C
The land of Thomas here the pilot veers	E
His ready tiller and more northward steers	E
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XVII	Q
Astolpho furrowing that ocean hoar	E
Marks as he coasts the wealthy land at ease	E
Ganges amid the whitening waters roar	E
Nigh skirting now the golden Chersonese	E
Taprobana with Cori next and sees	E
The frith which chafes against its double shore	E
Makes distant Cochin and with favouring wind	N
Issues beyond the boundaries of Ind	N
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XVIII	Q
Scouring at large broad ocean with a guide	N
So faithful and secure the cavalier	E
Questions Andronica if from that side	N
Named from the westering sun of this our sphere	E
Bark which with oars or canvas stemmed the tide	N
On eastern sea was wonted to appear	E
And could a wight who loosed from Indian strand	N
Reach France or Britain without touching land	N
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XIX	E
Andronica to England's duke replies	E
'Know that this earth is girt about with seas	E
And all to one another yield supplies	E
Whether the circling waters boil or freeze	E
But since the Aethiops' land before us lies	E
Extending southward many long degrees	E
Across his waters some one has supposed	N
A barrier here to Neptune interposed	N
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XX	E
'Hence bark from this Levant of Ind is none	C
Which weighs to shape her course for Europe's shore	E
Nor navigates from Europe any one	C
Our Oriental regions to explore	E
Fain to retrace alike the course begun	C
By the mid land extending wide before	E
Weening its limits of such length appear	E
That it must join another hemisphere	E
	-
XXI	E
'But in the course of circling years I view	Q
From farthest lands which catch the western ray	Q
New Argonauts put forth and Tiphys new	Q
Opening till now an undiscovered way	Q
Others I see coast Afric and pursue	Q
So far the negroes' burning shore that they	Q
Pass the far sign from whence on his return	C
The sun moves hither leaving Capricorn	C
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XXII	Q
'And find the limit of this length of land	N
Which makes a single sea appear as two	Q
Who scouring in their frigates every strand	N
Pass Ind and Arab isles or Persian through	Q
Others I see who leave on either hand	N
The banks which stout Alcides cleft in two	Q
And in the manner of the circling sun	C
To seek new lands and new creations run	C
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XXIII	Q
'The imperial flags and holy cross I know	C
Fixed on the verdant shore see some upon	C
The shattered barks keep guard and others go	C
A field by whom ne	C