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Orlando Furioso Canto 6 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Ariodantes has a worthy meed	A
With his loved bride the fief of Albany	B
Meantime Rogero on the flying steed	A
Arrives in false Alcina's empery	C
There from a myrtle tree her every deed	A
A human myrtle hears and treachery	C
And thence would go but they who first withdrew	C
Him from one strife engage him in a new	C
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I	-
Wretched that evil man who lives in trust	A
His secret sin is safe in his possession	D
Since if nought else the air the very dust	A
In which the crime is buried makes confession	D
And oftentimes his guilt compels the unjust	A
Though sometime unarraigned in worldly session	D
To be his own accuser and bewray	C
So God has willed deeds hidden from the day	A
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II	-
The unhappy Polinesso hopes had nursed	A
Wholly his secret treason to conceal	E
By taking off Dalinda who was versed	A
In this and only could the fact reveal	E
And adding thus a second to his first	A
Offence but hurried on the dread appeal	E
Which haply he had stunned at least deferred	A
But he to self destruction blindly spurred	A
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III	-
And forfeited estate and life and love	F
Of friends at once and honour which was more	C
The cavalier unknown I said above	F
Long of the king and court entreated sore	C
At length the covering helmet did remove	G
And showed a visage often seen before	C
The cherished face of Ariodantes true	C
Of late lamented weeping Scotland through	C
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IV	G
Ariodantes whom with tearful eye	-
His brother and Geneura wept as dead	A
And king and people and nobility	C
Such light his goodness and his valour shed	A
The pilgrim therefore might appear to lie	-
In what he of the missing warrior said	A
Yet was it true that from a headland he	C
Had seen him plunge into the foaming sea	C
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V	C
But as it oft befalls despairing wight	A
Who grisly Death desires till he appear	C
But loathes what he had sought on nearer sight	A
So painful seems the cruel pass and drear	C
Thus in the sea engulphed the wretched knight	A
Repentant of his deed was touched with fear	C
And matchless both for spirit and for hand	A
Beat back the billows and returned to land	A
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VI	-
And now despising as of folly bred	A
The fond desire which did to death impell	-
Thence soaked and dripping wet his way did tread	A
And halted at a hermit's humble cell	-
And housed within the holy father's shed	A
There secretly awhile designed to dwell	-
Till to his ears by rumour should be voiced	A
If his Geneura sorrowed or rejoiced	A
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VII	-
At first he heard that through excess of woe	H
The miserable damsel well nigh died	A
For so abroad the doleful tidings go	H
'Twas talked of in the island far and wide	A
Far other proof than that deceitful show	H
Which to his cruel grief he thought he spied	A
And next against the fair Geneura heard	A
Lurcanio to her sire his charge preferred	A
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VIII	-
Nor for his brother felt less enmity	C
Than was the love he lately bore the maid	A
For he too foul and full of cruelty	C
Esteemed the deed although for him essayed	C
And hearing after in her jeopardy	C
That none appeared to lend the damsel aid	C
Because so puissant was Lurcanio's might	C
All dreaded an encounter with the knight	C
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IX	C
And that who well the youthful champion knew	C
Believed he was so wary and discreet	C
That had what he related been untrue	C
He never would have risqued so rash a feat	C
For this the greater part the fight eschew	C
Fearing in wrongful cause the knight to meet	C
Ariodantes long his doubts are weighed	C
Will meet his brother in Geneura's aid	C
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X	C
'Alas he said I cannot bear to see	C
Thus by my cause the royal damsel die	C
My death too bitter and too dread would be	C
Did I before my own her death descry	C
For still my lady my divinity	C
She is the light and comfort of my eye	C
Her right or wrong I cannot choose but shield	C
And for her safety perish in the field	C
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XI	C
'I know I choose the wrong and be it so	C
And in the cause shall die nor this would move	-
But that alas my death as well I know	C
Will such a lovely dame's destruction prove	-
To death I with one only comfort go	C
That if her Polinesso bears her love	-
To her will manifestly be displayed	C
That hitherto he moves not in her aid	C
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XII	C
'And me so wronged by her the maid shall view	C
Encounter death in her defence and he	C
My brother who such flames of discord blew	C
Shall pay the debt of vengeance due to me	C
For well I ween to make Lurcanio rue	C
Informed of the event his cruelty	C
Who will have thought to venge me with his brand	C
And will have slain me with his very hand '	-
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XIII	C
He having this concluded in his thought	C
Made new provision of arms steed and shield	C
Black was the vest and buckler which he bought	C
Where green and yellow striped the sable field	C
By hazard found with him a squire he brought	C
A stranger in that country and concealed	C
As is already told the unhappy knight	C
Against his brother came prepared for fight	C
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XV	C
And yielding to his natural inclination	D
And at the suit of all his court beside	C
And mostly at Rinaldo's instigation	D
Assigned the youth the damsel as his bride	C
Albany's duchy now in sequestration	D
Late Polinesso's who in duel died	C
Could not be forfeited in happier hour	C
Since this the monarch made his daughter's dower	C
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XVI	C
Rinaldo for Dalinda mercy won	D
Who from her fault's due punishment went free	C
She satiate of the world and this to shun	D
The damsel so had vowed to God will flee	C
And hence in Denmark's land to live a nun	D
Straight from her native Scotland sailed the sea	C
But it is time Rogero to pursue	C
Who on his courser posts the welkin through	C
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XVII	C
Although Rogero is of constant mind	C
Not from his cheek the wonted hues depart	C
I ween that faster than a leaf i' the wind	C
Fluttered within his breast the stripling's heart	C
All Europe's region he had left behind	C
In his swift course and issuing in that part	C
Passed by a mighty space the southern sound	C
Where great Alcides fixed the sailor's bound	C
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XVIII	C
That hippogryph huge fowl and strange to sight	C
Bears off the warrior with such rapid wing	I
He would have distanced in his airy flight	C
The thunder bearing bird of Aether's king	I
Nor other living creature soars such height	C
Him in his mighty swiftness equalling	I
I scarce believe that bolt or lightning flies	C
Or darts more swiftly from the parted skies	C
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XIX	C
When the huge bird his pinions long had plied	C
In a straight line without one stoop or bend	C
He tired of air with sweeping wheel and wide	C
Began upon an island to descend	C
Like that fair region whither long unspied	C
Of him her wayward mood did long offend	C
Whilom in vain through strange and secret sluice	C
Passed under sea the Virgin Arethuse	C
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XX	C
A more delightful place wherever hurled	C
Through the whole air Rogero had not found	C
And had he ranged the universal world	C
Would not have seen a lovelier in his round	C
Than that where wheeling wide the courser furled	C
His spreading wings and lighted on the ground	C
'Mid cultivated plain delicious hill	-
Moist meadow shady bank and crystal rill	-
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XXI	C
Small thickets with the scented laurel gay	I
Cedar and orange full of fruit and flower	C
Myrtle and palm with interwoven spray	I
Pleached in mixed modes all lovely form a bower	C
And breaking with their shade the scorching ray	I
Make a cool shelter from the noontide hour	C
And nightingales among those branches wing	I
Their flight and safely amorous descants sing	I
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XXII	C
Amid red roses and white lilies there	C
Which the soft breezes freshen as they fly	C
Secure the cony haunts and timid hare	C
And stag with branching forehead broad and high	C
These fearless of the hunter's dart or snare	C
Feed at their ease or ruminating lie	C
While swarming in those wilds from tuft or steep	J
Dun deer or nimble goat disporting leap	J
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XXIII	C
When the hyppogryph above the island hung	I
And had approached so nigh that landscape fair	C
That if his rider from the saddle sprung	I
He might the leap with little danger dare	C
Rogero lit the grass and flowers among	I
But held him lest he should remount the air	C
And to a myrtle nigh the rolling brine	K
Made fast between a bay tree and a pine	K
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XXIV	C
And there close by where ro	C