Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 03 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD AAEAEAEFG AHIHIHIJI JKLKMKMNN JOIOIOIBB JIIIIIIAI JJPJAJPJJ JIQIQIQJJ AIJIJIJII AARARASII AAOAOAOTTAIOIOIOII AIIIIIITT ATUTUTUII IIVIVIVAAXXVI | A |
quot Turks Persians conquered Antiochia won | B |
Be glorious acts and full of glorious praise | C |
By Heaven's mere grace not by our prowess done | B |
Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways | C |
If now from that directed course we run | B |
The God of Battles thus before us lays | C |
His loving kindness shall we lose I doubt | D |
And be a byword to the lands about | D |
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XXVII | A |
quot Let not these blessings then sent from above | A |
Abused be or split in profane wise | E |
But let the issue correspondent prove | A |
To good beginnings of each enterprise | E |
The gentle season might our courage move | A |
Now every passage plain and open lies | E |
What lets us then the great Jerusalem | F |
With valiant squadrons round about to hem | G |
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XXVIII | A |
quot Lords I protest and hearken all to it | H |
Ye times and ages future present past | I |
Hear all ye blessed in the heavens that sit | H |
The time for this achievement hasteneth fast | I |
The longer rest worse will the season fit | H |
Our sureties shall with doubt be overcast | I |
If we forslow the siege I well foresee | J |
From Egypt will the Pagans succored be quot | I |
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XXIX | J |
This said the hermit Peter rose and spake | K |
Who sate in counsel those great Lords among | L |
quot At my request this war was undertake | K |
In private cell who erst lived closed long | M |
What Godfrey wills of that no question make | K |
There cast no doubts where truth is plain and strong | M |
Your acts I trust will correspond his speech | N |
Yet one thing more I would you gladly teach | N |
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XXX | J |
quot These strifes unless I far mistake the thing | O |
And discords raised oft in disordered sort | I |
Your disobedience and ill managing | O |
Of actions lost for want of due support | I |
Refer I justly to a further spring | O |
Spring of sedition strife oppression tort | I |
I mean commanding power to sundry given | B |
In thought opinion worth estate uneven | B |
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XXXI | J |
quot Where divers Lords divided empire hold | I |
Where causes be by gifts not justice tried | I |
Where offices be falsely bought and sold | I |
Needs must the lordship there from virtue slide | I |
Of friendly parts one body then uphold | I |
Create one head the rest to rule and guide | I |
To one the regal power and sceptre give | A |
That henceforth may your King and Sovereign live quot | I |
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XXXII | J |
And therewith stayed his speech O gracious Muse | J |
What kindling motions in their breasts do fry | P |
With grace divine the hermit's talk infuse | J |
That in their hearts his words may fructify | A |
By this a virtuous concord they did choose | J |
And all contentions then began to die | P |
The Princes with the multitude agree | J |
That Godfrey ruler of those wars should be | J |
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XXXIII | J |
This power they gave him by his princely right | I |
All to command to judge all good and ill | Q |
Laws to impose to lands subdued by might | I |
To maken war both when and where he will | Q |
To hold in due subjection every wight | I |
Their valors to be guided by his skill | Q |
This done Report displays her tell tale wings | J |
And to each ear the news and tidings brings | J |
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XXXIV | A |
She told the soldiers who allowed him meet | I |
And well deserving of that sovereign place | J |
Their first salutes and acclamations sweet | I |
Received he with love and gentle grace | J |
After their reverence done with kind regreet | I |
Requited was with mild and cheerful face | J |
He bids his armies should the following day | I |
On those fair plains their standards proud display | I |
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XXXV | A |
The golden sun rose from the silver wave | A |
And with his beams enamelled every green | R |
When up arose each warrior bold and brave | A |
Glistering in filed steel and armor sheen | R |
With jolly plumes their crests adorned they have | A |
And all tofore their chieftain mustered been | S |
He from a mountain cast his curious sight | I |
On every footman and on every knight | I |
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XXXVI | A |
My mind Time's enemy Oblivion's foe | A |
Disposer true of each noteworthy thing | O |
Oh let thy virtuous might avail me so | A |
That I each troop and captain great may sing | O |
That in this glorious war did famous grow | A |
Forgot till now by Time's evil handling | O |
This work derived from my treasures dear | T |
Let all times hearken never age outwear | T |
XXXVII | A |
The French came foremost battailous and bold | I |
Late led by Hugo brother to their King | O |
From France the isle that rivers four infold | I |
With rolling streams descending from their spring | O |
But Hugo dead the lily fair of gold | I |
Their wonted ensign they tofore them bring | O |
Under Clotharius great a captain good | I |
And hardy knight ysprong of princes' blood | I |
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XXXVIII | A |
A thousand were they in strong armors clad | I |
Next whom there marched forth another band | I |
That number nature and instruction had | I |
Like them to fight far off or charge at hand | I |
All valiant Normans by Lord Robert lad | I |
The native Duke of that renowned land | I |
Two bishops next their standards proud upbare | T |
Called Reverend William and Good Ademare | T |
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XXXIX | A |
Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear | T |
On merry mornings at the mass divine | U |
And horrid helms high on their heads they bear | T |
When their fierce courage they to war incline | U |
The first four hundred horsemen gathered near | T |
To Orange town and lands that it confine | U |
But Ademare the Poggian youth brought out | I |
In number like in hard assays as stout | I |
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XL | I |
Baldwin his ensign fair did next dispread | I |
Among his Bulloigners of noble fame | V |
His brother gave him all his troops to lead | I |
When he commander of the field became | V |
The Count Carinto did him straight succeed | I |
Grave in advice well skilled in Mars his game | V |
Four hundred brought he but so many thrice | A |
Led Baldwin clad in gilden arms of price | A |
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