Orlando Furioso Canto 22 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Orlando Furioso Canto 22 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Atlantes' magic towers Astolpho wight	B
Destroys and frees his thralls from prison cell	C
Bradamant finds Rogero who in fight	B
O'erthrows four barons from the warlike sell	C
When on their way to save an errant knight	B
Doomed to devouring fire the four who fell	C
For impious Pinnabel maintained the strife	D
Whom after Bradamant deprives of life	D
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I	-
Ye courteous dames and to your lovers dear	E
You that are with one single love content	F
Though 'mid so many and many it is clear	E
Right few of you are of such constant bent	F
Be not displeased at what I said whilere	E
When I so bitterly Gabrina shent	F
Nor if I yet expend some other verse	G
In censure of the beldam's mind perverse	G
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II	-
Such was she and I hide not what is true	E
So was enjoined me for a task by one	H
Whose will is law therefore is honour due	E
To constant heart throughout my story done	H
He who betrayed his master to the Jew	E
For thirty pence nor Peter wronged nor John	I
Nor less renowned is Hypermnestra's fame	J
For her so many wicked sisters' shame	J
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III	-
For one I dare to censure in my lays	K
For so the story wills which I recite	F
On the other hand a hundred will I praise	K
And make their virtue dim the sun's fair light	F
But turning to the various pile I raise	K
Gramercy dear to many of the knight	F
Of Scotland I was telling who hard by	-
Had heard as was rehearsed a piercing cry	-
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IV	D
He entered 'twixt two hills a narrow way	L
From whence was heard the cry nor far had hied	F
Ere to a vale he came shut out from day	F
Where he before him a dead knight espied	F
Who I shall tell but first I must away	F
From France in the Levant to wander wide	F
Till I the paladin Astolpho find	F
Who westward had his course from thence inclined	F
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V	D
I in the cruel city left the peer	E
Whence with the formidable bugle's roar	E
He had chased the unfaithful people in their fear	E
And has preserved himself from peril sore	E
And with the sound had made his comrades rear	E
Then sail and fly with noted scorn that shore	E
Now following him I say the warrior took	M
The Armenian road and so that land forsook	M
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VI	D
He after some few days in Natoly	C
Finds himself and towards Brusa goes his ways	K
Hence wending on the hither side o' the sea	D
Makes Thrace through Hungary by the Danube lays	K
His course and as his horse had wings to flee	D
Traverses in less time than twenty days	K
Both the Moravian and Bohemian line	N
Threaded Franconia next and crost the Rhine	N
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VII	D
To Aix la Chapelle thence through Arden's wood	F
Came and embarked upon the Flemish strand	F
To sea with southern breeze his vessel stood	F
And so the favouring wind her canvas fanned	F
That he at little distance Albion viewed	F
By noon and disembarked upon her land	F
He backed his horse and so the rowels plied	F
In London he arrived by even tide	F
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VIII	D
Here learning afterwards that Otho old	F
Has lain for many months in Paris town	O
And that anew nigh every baron bold	F
Has after his renowned example done	H
He straightway does for France his sails unfold	F
And to the mouth of Thames again is gone	P
Whence issuing forth with all his canvas spread	F
For Calais he directs the galley's head	F
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IX	K
A breeze which from the starboard blowing light	F
Had tempted forth Astolpho's bark to sea	K
By little and by little waxed in might	F
And so at last obtains the mastery	K
The pilot is constrained to veer outright	F
Lest by the billows swampt his frigate be	K
And he departing from his first design	N
Keeps the bark straight before the cresting brine	N
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X	K
Now to the right now to the other hand	F
Sped by the tempest through the foaming main	Q
The vessel ran she took the happy land	F
At last nigh Rouen and forthwith in chain	Q
And plate Astolpho cased and girt with brand	F
Bade put the saddle upon Rabicane	Q
Departed thence and what availed him more	E
Than thousands armed with him his bugle bore	E
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XI	K
And traversing a forest at the feet	F
Of a fair hill arrived beside a font	F
What time the sheep foregoes his grassy meat	F
Penned in the cabin or the hollow mount	F
And overcome by feverish thirst and heat	F
Lifted the weighty morion from his front	F
Tethered his courser in the thickest wood	F
And with intent to drink approached the flood	F
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XII	K
His lips he had not wetted in its bed	F
Before a youthful rustic ambushed near	E
Sprang from a copse backed Rabican and fled	F
With the good courser of the cavalier	E
Astolpho hears the noise and lifts his head	F
And when he sees his mighty loss so clear	E
Satiate although he had not drunk upstarts	K
And after the young churl in fury darts	K
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XIII	K
That robber did not let the courser strain	Q
At speed or he had from the warrior shot	F
But loosening now and tightening now the rein	Q
Fled at a gallop or a steady trot	F
From the deep forest issued forth the twain	Q
After long round and reached in fine the spot	F
Where so many illustrious lords were shent	F
Worse prisoners they than if in prison pent	F
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XIV	D
On Rabican who with the wind might race	K
The villain sped within the enchanter's won	Q
Impeded by his shield and iron case	K
Parforce Astolpho far behind him run	Q
Yet there arrives as well but every trace	K
Of what the warrior had pursued is gone	Q
He neither Rabican nor thief can meet	F
And vainly rolls his eyes and plies his feet	F
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XV	D
He plies his feet and searches still in vain	Q
Throughout the house hall bower or galleried rows	K
Yet labours evermore with fruitless pain	Q
And care to find the treacherous churl nor knows	K
Where he can have secreted Rabicane	Q
Who every other animal outgoes	K
And vainly searches all day the dome about	F
Above below within it and without	F
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XVI	D
He wearied and confused with wandering wide	F
Perceived the place was by enchantment wrought	F
And of the book he carried at his side	F
By Logistilla given in India thought	F
Bestowed should new enchantment him betide	F
That needful succour might therein be sought	F
He to the index turns and quickly sees	K
What pages show the proper remedies	K
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XVII	D
I' the book of that enchanted house at large	R
Was written and in this was taught the way	F
To foil the enchanter and to set at large	R
The different prisoners subject to his sway	F
Of these illusions and these frauds in charge	R
A spirit pent beneath the threshold lay	F
And the stone raised which kept him fast below	C
With him the palace into smoke would go	C
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XVIII	D
Astolpho with desire to bring to end	F
An enterprise so passing fair delays	K
No more but to the task his force does bend	F
And prove how much the heavy marble weighs	K
As old Atlantes sees the knight intend	F
To bring to scorn his art and evil ways	K
Suspicious of the ill which may ensue	K
He moves to assail him with enchantments new	K
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XIX	K
He with his spells and shapes of devilish kind	F
Makes the duke different from his wont appear	E
To one a giant and to one a hind	F
To other an ill visaged cavalier	E
Each in the form which in the thicket blind	F
The false enchanter wore beholds the peer	E
So that they all with purpose to have back	S
What the magician took the duke attack	S
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XX	K
The Child Gradasso Iroldo Bradamant	F
Prasildo Brandimart and many more	E
All cheated by this new illusion pant	F
To slay the English baron angered sore	E
But he abased their pride and haughty vaunt	F
Who straight bethought him of the horn be bore	E
But for the succour of its echo dread	F
They without fail had laid Astolpho dead	F
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XXI	K
But he no sooner has the bugle wound	F
And poured a horrid larum than in guise	K
Of pigeons at the musquet's scaring sound	F
The troop of cavaliers affrighted flies	K
No less the necromancer starts astound	F
No less he from his den in panic hies	K
Troubled and pale and hurrying evermore	E
Till out of hearing of the horrid roar	E
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XXII	K
The warder fled with him his prisoned train	Q
And many steeds as well are fled and gone	Q
These more than rope is needed to restrain	Q
Who after their astounded masters run	Q
Scared by the sound nor cat nor mouse remain	Q
Who seem to hear in it 'Lay on lay on '	-
Rabican with the rest had broke his bands	K
But that he fell into Astolpho's hands	K
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XXIII	K
He having chased the enchanter Moor away	F
Upraise	K