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Orlando Furioso Canto 5 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Lurcanio by a false report abused	B
Deemed by Geneura's fault his brother dead	C
Weening the faithless duke whom she refused	B
Was taken by the damsel to her bed	C
And her before the king and peers accused	B
But to the session Ariodantes led	C
Strives with his brother in disguise In season	D
Rinaldo comes to venge the secret treason	D
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I	-
Among all other animals who prey	E
On earth or who unite in friendly wise	F
Whether they mix in peace or moody fray	E
No male offends his mate In safety hies	F
The she bear matched with hers through forest gray	E
The lioness beside the lion lies	F
Wolves male and female live in loving cheer	G
Nor gentle heifer dreads the wilful steer	G
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II	-
What Fury what abominable Pest	H
Such poison in the human heart has shed	C
That still 'twixt man and wife with rage possessed	H
Injurious words and foul reproach are said	C
And blows and outrage hase their peace molest	H
And bitter tears still wash the genial bed	C
Not only watered by the tearful flood	I
But often bathed by senseless ire with blood	I
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III	-
Not simply a rank sinner he appears	F
To outrage nature and his God to dare	J
Who his foul hand against a woman rears	F
Or of her head would harm a single hair	J
But who what drug the burning entrail sears	F
Or who for her would knife or noose prepare	J
No man appears to me though such to sight	K
He seem but rather some infernal sprite	K
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IV	-
Such and no other were those ruffians two	L
Whom good Rinaldo from the damsel scared	M
Conducted to these valleys out of view	L
That none might wot of her so foully snared	M
I ended where the damsel fair of hue	L
To tell the occasion of her scathe prepared	M
To the good Paladin who brought release	F
And in conclusion thus my story piece	F
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V	-
'Of direr deed than ever yet was done '	-
The gentle dame began 'Sir cavalier	G
In Thebes Mycene Argos or upon	N
Other more savage soil prepare to hear	O
And I believe that if the circling sun	D
To these our Scottish shores approach less near	G
Than other land 'tis that he would eschew	L
A foul ferocious race that shocks his view	L
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VI	-
'All times have shown that man has still pursued	P
With hair in every clime his natural foe	-
But to deal death to those who seek our good	Q
Does from too ill and foul a nature flow	-
Now that the truth be better understood	Q
I shall from first to last the occasion show	-
Why in my tender years against all right	K
Those caitiffs would have dome me foul despite	K
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VII	-
' 'Tis fitting you should know that in the spring	R
Of life I to the palace made resort	S
There served long time the daughter of the king	R
And grew with her in growth well placed in court	S
When cruel love my fortune envying	R
Willed I should be his follower and his sport	S
And made beyond each Scottish lord and knight	K
Albany's duke find favour in my sight	K
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VIII	-
'And for he seemed to cherish me above	-
All mean his love a love as ardent bred	C
We hear indeed and see but do not prove	-
Man's faith nor is his bosom's purpose read	C
Believing still and yielding to my love	-
I ceased not till I took him to my bed	C
Nor of all chambers in that evil hour	T
Marked I was in Geneura's priviest bower	T
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IX	F
'Where hoarded she with careful privacy	F
Preserved whatever she esteemed most rare	J
There many times she slept A gallery	F
From thence projected into the open air	J
Here oft I made my lover climb to me	F
And what he was to mount a hempen stair	J
When him I to my longing arms would call	U
From the projecting balcony let fall	U
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X	F
'For here my passion I as often fed	C
As good Geneura's absence made me bold	V
Who with the varying season changed her bed	C
To shun the burning heat or pinching cold	V
And Albany unseen and safely sped	C
For fronting a dismantled street and old	V
Was built that portion of the palace bright	K
Nor any went that way by day or night	K
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XI	F
'So was for many days and months maintained	W
By us in secrecy the amorous game	X
Still grew by love and such new vigour gained	W
I in my inmost bosom felt the flame	X
And that he little loved and deeply feigned	W
Weened not so was I blinded to my shame	X
Though in a thousand certain signs betrayed	Y
The faithless knight his base deceit bewrayed	Y
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XII	F
'After some days of fair Geneura he	F
A suitor showed himself I cannot say	F
If this began before he sighed for me	F
Or after of this love he made assay	F
But judge alas with what supremacy	F
He ruled my heart how absolute his sway	F
Since this he owned and thought no shame to move	-
Me to assist him in his second love	-
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XIII	F
'Unlike what he bore me he said indeed	Y
That was not true which he for her displayed	Y
But so pretending love he hoped to speed	Y
And celebrate due spousals with the maid	Y
He with her royal sire might well succeed	Y
Were she consenting to the boon he prayed	Y
For after our good king for wealth and birth	Z
In all the realm was none of equal worth	Z
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XIV	-
'Me he persuades if through my ministry	F
He the king's son in law elected were	T
For I must know he next the king would be	F
Advanced as high as subject could repair	J
The merit should be mine and ever he	F
So great a benefit in mind would bear	J
And he would cherish me above his bride	Y
And more than every other dame beside	Y
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XV	-
'I who to please him was entirely bent	Y
Who never could or would gainsay his will	A2
Upon those days alone enjoy content	Y
When I find means his wishes to fulfil	A2
And snatch at all occasions which present	Y
A mode his praise and merits to instil	A2
And for my lover with all labour strain	B2
And industry Geneura's love to gain	B2
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XVI	-
'With all my heart in furtherance of his suit	Y
I wrought what could be done God truly knows	F
But with Geneura this produced no friut	Y
Nor her to grace my duke could I dispose	F
For that another love had taken root	Y
In her whose every fond affection flows	F
Towards a gentle knight of courteous lore	C2
Who sought our Scotland from a distant shore	C2
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XVII	-
'And with a brother then right young to stay	Y
In our king's court came out of Italy	A2
And there of knightly arms made such assay	A2
Was none in Britain more approved than he	A2
Prized by the king who no ignoble pay	Y
Rewarding him like his nobility	A2
Bestowed upon the youth with liberal hand	Y
Burghs baronies and castles woods and land	Y
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XVIII	-
'Dear to the monarch to the daughter still	A2
This lord was dearer Ariodantes hight	Y
Her with affection might his valour fill	A2
But knowledge of his love brought more delight	Y
Nor old Vesuvius nor Sicilia's hill	A2
Nor Troy town ever with a blaze so bright	Y
Flamed as with all his heart the damsel learned	Y
For love of her young Ariodantes burned	Y
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XIX	A2
'The passion which she bore the lord preferred	Y
And loved with perfect truth and all her heart	Y
Was the occassion I was still unheard	Y
Nor hopeful answer would she e'er impart	Y
And still the more my lover's suit I stirred	Y
And to obtain his guerdon strove with art	Y
Him she would censure still and ever more	C2
Was strengthened in the hate she nursed before	C2
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XX	A2
'My wayward lover often I excite	Y
So vain and bootless an emprize to quit	Y
Nor idly hope to turn her stedfast sprite	Y
Too deeply with another passion smit	Y
And make apparent to the Scottish knight	Y
Ariodantes such a flame had lit	Y
In the young damsel's breast that seas in flood	Y
Would not have cooled one whit her boiling blood	Y
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XXI	A2
'This Polinesso many times had heard	Y
From me for such the Scottish baron's name	X
Well warranted by sight as well as word	Y
How ill his love was cherished by the dame	X
To see another to himself preferred	Y
Not only quenched the haughty warrior's flame	X
But the fond love which in his bosom burned	Y
Into despiteful rage and hatred turned	Y
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XXII	A2
'Between Geneura and her faithful knight	Y
Such discord and ill will he schemed to shed	Y
And put betwixt the pair such foul despite	Y
No time should heal the quarrel he had bred	Y
Bringing such scandal on that damsel bright	Y
The stain should cleave to her alive or dead	Y
Nor bent to wreck her on this fatal shelf	-
Counselled with me or other but himself	-
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XXIII	A2
' Dalinda mine ' he said his project brewed	Y
Dalinda is my name you needs must know	-
That from	D2