Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 04 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCBB ABBBBBBDE AFBFBFBGG HAIAIAIEE HIBIBIBJJ HBBBBBBBB HBFBFBFBB HBBBBBBBB JJAJAJAII ABKBLBKAA AIBIBIBMN AOBOBOBBB ABIBIBIEEHIIIIIIII HBBBBBBJJXLI | A |
Guelpho next them the land and place possest | B |
Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree | C |
By his Italian sire fro the house of Est | B |
Well could he bring his noble pedigree | C |
A German born with rich possessions blest | B |
A worthy branch sprung from the Guelphian tree | C |
'Twixt Rhene and Danubie the land contained | B |
He ruled where Swaves and Rhetians whilom reigned | B |
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XLII | A |
His mother's heritage was this and right | B |
To which he added more by conquest got | B |
From thence approved men of passing might | B |
He brought that death or danger feared not | B |
It was their wont in feasts to spend the night | B |
And pass cold days in baths and houses hot | B |
Five thousand late of which now scantly are | D |
The third part left such is the chance of war | E |
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XLIII | A |
The nation then with crisped locks and fair | F |
That dwell between the seas and Arden Wood | B |
Where Mosel streams and Rhene the meadows wear | F |
A battel soil for grain for pasture good | B |
Their islanders with them who oft repair | F |
Their earthen bulwarks 'gainst the ocean flood | B |
The flood elsewhere that ships and barks devours | G |
But there drowns cities countries towns and towers | G |
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XLIV | H |
Both in one troop and but a thousand all | A |
Under another Robert fierce they run | I |
Then the English squadron soldiers stout and tall | A |
By William led their sovereign's younger son | I |
These archers be and with them come withal | A |
A people near the Northern Pole that wone | I |
Whom Ireland sent from loughs and forests hoar | E |
Divided far by sea from Europe's shore | E |
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XLV | H |
Tancredi next nor 'mongst them all was one | I |
Rinald except a prince of greater might | B |
With majesty his noble countenance shone | I |
High were his thoughts his heart was bold in fight | B |
No shameful vice his worth had overgone | I |
His fault was love by unadvised sight | B |
Bred in the dangers of adventurous arms | J |
And nursed with griefs with sorrows woes and harms | J |
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XLVI | H |
Fame tells that on that ever blessed day | B |
When Christian swords with Persian blood were dyed | B |
The furious Prince Tancredi from that fray | B |
His coward foes chased through forests wide | B |
Till tired with the fight the heat the way | B |
He sought some place to rest his wearied side | B |
And drew him near a silver stream that played | B |
Among wild herbs under the greenwood shade | B |
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XLVII | H |
A Pagan damsel there unwares he met | B |
In shining steel all save her visage fair | F |
Her hair unbound she made a wanton net | B |
To catch sweet breathing from the cooling air | F |
On her at gaze his longing looks he set | B |
Sight wonder wonder love love bred his care | F |
O love o wonder love new born new bred | B |
Now groan now armed this champion captive led | B |
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XLVIII | H |
Her helm the virgin donned and but some wight | B |
She feared might come to aid him as they fought | B |
Her courage earned to have assailed the knight | B |
Yet thence she fled uncompanied unsought | B |
And left her image in his heart ypight | B |
Her sweet idea wandered through his thought | B |
Her shape her gesture and her place in mind | B |
He kept and blew love's fire with that wind | B |
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XLIX | J |
Well might you read his sickness in his eyes | J |
Their banks were full their tide was at the flow | A |
His help far off his hurt within him lies | J |
His hopes unstrung his cares were fit to mow | A |
Eight hundred horse from Champain came he guies | J |
Champain a land where wealth ease pleasure grow | A |
Rich Nature's pomp and pride the Tirrhene main | I |
There woos the hills hills woo the valleys plain | I |
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L | A |
Two hundred Greeks came next in fight well tried | B |
Not surely armed in steel or iron strong | K |
But each a glaive had pendant by his side | B |
Their bows and quivers at their shoulders hung | L |
Their horses well inured to chase and ride | B |
In diet spare untired with labor long | K |
Ready to charge and to retire at will | A |
Though broken scattered fled they skirmish still | A |
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LI | A |
Tatine their guide and except Tatine none | I |
Of all the Greeks went with the Christian host | B |
O sin O shame O Greece accurst alone | I |
Did not this fatal war affront thy coast | B |
Yet safest thou an idle looker on | I |
And glad attendest which side won or lost | B |
Now if thou be a bondslave vile become | M |
No wrong is that but God's most righteous doom | N |
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LII | A |
In order last but first in worth and fame | O |
Unfeared in fight untired with hurt or wound | B |
The noble squadron of adventurers came | O |
Terrors to all that tread on Asian ground | B |
Cease Orpheus of thy Minois Arthur shame | O |
To boast of Lancelot or thy table round | B |
For these whom antique times with laurel drest | B |
These far exceed them thee and all the rest | B |
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LIII | A |
Dudon of Consa was their guide and lord | B |
And for of worth and birth alike they been | I |
They chose him captain by their free accord | B |
For he most acts had done most battles seen | I |
Grave was the man in years in looks in word | B |
His locks were gray yet was his courage green | I |
Of worth and might the noble badge he bore | E |
Old scars of grievous wounds received of yore | E |
LIV | H |
After came Eustace well esteemed man | I |
For Godfrey's sake his brother and his own | I |
The King of Norway's heir Gernando than | I |
Proud of his father's title sceptre crown | I |
Roger of Balnavill and Engerlan | I |
For hardy knights approved were and known | I |
Besides were numbered in that warlike train | I |
Rambald Gentonio and the Gerrards twain | I |
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LV | H |
Ubaldo then and puissant Rosimond | B |
Of Lancaster the heir in rank succeed | B |
Let none forget Obizo of Tuscain land | B |
Well worthy praise for many a worthy deed | B |
Nor those three brethren Lombards fierce and yond | B |
Achilles Sforza and stern Palamede | B |
Nor Otton's shield he conquered in those stowres | J |
In which a snake a naked child devours | J |
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