Orlando Furioso Canto 8 Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 15 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

A Guidebook To My Future Friends
by Aditi Mukherjee
Ndihamba Ndisekhona" Chant Beat: Stomp-stomp-clap, Stomp-stomp-clap
by Asher Chipu
Ledige Praatjies
by Asher Chipu
Life Is Working
by Asher Chipu
The Knocking To The Door
by Asher Chipu
Ubizo: What You Are Called To Do
by Asher Chipu
Sum Obsession
by Asher Chipu
Locust
by Asher Chipu
Eden Passing
by Asher Chipu
I Am The Silence
by Asher Chipu

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2415 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso Canto 8 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

About Orlando Furioso Canto 8

Write your comment about Orlando Furioso Canto 8 poem by Ludovico Ariosto

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets

ARGUMENT	A
Rogero flies Astolpho with the rest	B
To their true shape Melissa does restore	C
Rinaldo levies knights and squadrons pressed	B
In aid of Charles assaulted by the Moor	D
Angelica by ruffians found at rest	B
Is offered to a monster on the shore	C
Orlando warned in visions of his ill	E
Departs from Paris sore against his will	E
	-
I	-
How many enchantresses among us oh	F
How many enchanters are there though unknown	G
Who for their love make man or woman glow	F
Changing them into figures not their own	G
Nor this by help of spirits from below	F
Nor observation of the stars is done	H
But these on hearts with fraud and falsehood plot	I
Binding them with indissoluble knot	I
	-
II	-
Who with Angelica's or rather who	J
Were fortified with Reason's ring would see	K
Each countenance exposed to open view	J
Unchanged by art or by hypocrisy	K
This now seems fair and good whose borrowed hue	J
Removed would haply foul and evil be	K
Well was it for Rogero that he wore	C
The virtuous ring which served the truth to explore	C
	-
III	-
Rogero still dissembling as I said	L
Armed to the gate on Rabican did ride	M
Found the guard unprepared not let his blade	N
Amid that crowd hang idle at his side	M
He passed the bridge and broke the palisade	N
Some slain some maimed then t'wards the forest hied	N
But on that road small space had measured yet	N
When he a servant of the fairy met	N
	-
IV	J
He on his fist a ravening falcon bore	C
Which he made fly for pastime every day	N
Now on the champaign now upon the shore	C
Of neighbouring pool which teemed with certain prey	N
And rode a hack which simple housings wore	C
His faithful dog companion of his way	N
He marking well the haste with which he hies	K
Conjectures truly what Rogero flies	K
	-
V	J
Towards him came the knave with semblance haught	N
Demanding whither in such haste he sped	N
To him the good Rogero answers naught	N
He hence assured more clearly that he fled	N
Within himself to stop the warrior thought	N
And thus with his left arm extended said	N
'What if I suddenly thy purpose balk	O
And thou find no defence against this hawk '	-
	-
VI	J
Then flies his bird who works so well his wing	P
Rabican cannot distance him in flight	N
The falconer from his back to ground did spring	P
And freed him from the bit which held him tight	N
Who seemed an arrow parted from the string	P
And terrible to foe with kick and bite	N
While with such haste behind the servant came	Q
He sped as moved by wind or rather flame	Q
	-
VII	J
Nor will the falconer's dog appear more slow	F
But hunts Rogero's courser as in chace	K
Of timid hare the pard is wont to go	F
Not to stand fast the warrior deems disgrace	K
And turns towards the swiftly footed foe	F
Whom he sees wield a riding wand place	K
Of other arms to make his dog obey	N
Rogero scorns his faulchion to display	N
	-
VIII	F
The servant made at him and smote him sore	C
The dog his left foot worried while untied	N
From rein the lightened horse three times and more	C
Lashed from the croup nor missed his better side	N
The hawk oft wheeling with her talons tore	C
The stripling and his horse so terrified	N
The courser by the whizzing sound dismayed	N
Little the guiding hand or spur obeyed	N
	-
IX	K
Constrained at length his sword Rogero drew	J
To clear the rabble who his course delay	N
And in the animals' or villain's view	J
Did now its point and now its edge display	N
But with more hinderance and vexatious crew	J
Swarm here and there and wholly block the way	N
And that dishonour will ensue and loss	K
Rogero sees if him they longer cross	K
	-
X	K
He knew each little that he longer stayed	N
Would bring the fay and followers on the trail	R
Already drums were beat and trumpets brayed	N
And larum bells rang loud in every vale	R
An act too foul it seemed to use his blade	N
On dog and knave unfenced with arms or mail	R
A better and shorter way it were	S
The buckler old Atlantes' work to bare	T
	-
XI	K
He raised the crimson cloth in which he wore	C
The wondrous shield enclosed for many a day	N
Its beams as proved a thousand times before	C
Work as they wont when on the sight they play	N
Senseless the falconer tumbles on the moor	D
Drop dog and hackney drop the pinions gay	N
Which poised in air the bird no longer keep	U
Then glad Rogero leaves a prey to sleep	U
	-
XII	K
In the mean time Alcina who had heard	N
How he had forced the gate and in the press	K
Slaughtered a mighty number of her guard	N
Remained nigh dead o'erwhelmed with her distress	K
She tore her vesture and her visage marred	N
And cursed her want of wit and wariness	K
Then made forthwith her meiny sound to arms	K
And round herself arrayed her martial swarms	K
	-
XIII	K
Divided next one squadron by the way	N
Rogero took she sent the bands were two	J
She at the port embarked the next array	N
And straight to sea dispatched the warlike crew	J
With this good squadron went the desperate fay	N
And darked by loosened sails the billows grew	J
For so desire upon her bosom preyed	N
Of troops she left her city unpurveyed	N
	-
XIV	N
Without a guard she left her palace there	T
Which to Melissa prompt her time to seize	K
To loose her vassals that in misery were	S
Afforded all convenience and full ease	K
To range at leisure through the palace fair	T
And so examine all her witcheries	K
To raze the seal burn images and loose	K
Or cancel hag knot rhomb or magic noose	K
	-
XV	N
Thence through the fields fast hurrying from that dome	V
The former lovers changed a mighty train	W
Some into rock or tree to fountain some	X
Or beast she made assume their shapes again	Y
And these when they anew are free to roam	V
Follow Rogero's footsteps to the reign	W
Of Logistilla's sage and from that bourn	Z
To Scythia Persia Greece and Ind return	A2
	-
XVI	N
They to their several homes dispatched repair	T
Bound by a debt which never can be paid	N
The English duke above the rest her care	T
Of these was first in human form arrayed	N
For much his kindred and the courteous prayer	T
Of good Rogero with Melissa weighed	N
Beside his prayers the ring Rogero gave	N
That him she by its aid might better save	N
	-
XVII	N
Thus by Rogero's suit the enchantress won	H
To his first shape transformed the youthful peer	B2
But good Melissa deemed that nought was done	H
Save she restored his armour and that spear	B2
Of gold which whensoe'er at tilt he run	H
At the first touch unseated cavalier	B2
Once Argalia's next Astolpho's lance	K
And source of mighty fame to both in France	K
	-
XVIII	N
The sage Melissa found this spear of gold	N
Which now Alcina's magic palace graced	N
And other armour of the warrior bold	N
Of which he was in that ill dome uncased	N
She climbed the courser of the wizard old	N
And on the croup at ease Astolpho placed	N
And thus an hour before Rogero came	Q
Repaired to Logistilla knight and dame	Q
	-
XIX	K
Meantime through rugged rocks and shagged with thorn	Z
Rogero wends to seek the sober fay	N
From cliff to cliff from path to path forlorn	Z
A rugged lone inhospitable way	N
Till he with labour huge oppressed and worn	Z
Issued at noon upon a beach that lay	N
'Twixt sea and mountain open to the south	C2
Deserted barren bare and parched with drouth	C2
	-
XX	K
The sunbeams on the neighbouring mountain beat	N
And glare reflected from the glowing mass	K
So fiercely sand and air both boil with heat	N
In mode that might have more than melted glass	K
The birds are silent in their dim retreat	N
Nor any note is heard in wood or grass	K
Save the bough perched Cicala's wearying cry	J
Which deafens hill and dale and sea and sky	J
	-
XXI	K
The heat and thirst and labour which he bore	C
By that drear sandy way beside the sea	K
Along the unhabited and sunny shore	C
Were to Rogero grievous company	K
Bur for I may not still pursue this lore	C
Nor should you busied with one matter be	K
Rogero I abandon in this heat	N
For Scotland to pursue Rinaldo's beat	N
	-
XXII	K
By king by daughter and by all degrees	K
To Sir Rinaldo was large welcome paid	N
And next the warrior at his better ease	K
The occasion of his embassy displayed	N
That he from thence and England subsidies	K
Of men was seeking for his monarch's aid	N
In Charles's name and added in his care	T
The justest reasons to support his	K