Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGG AHIHIHIJJ AKLKLKLAA KJMJNJNKK KOPOPOPQQ KRQRQRQSS KTMUMUVWW KXOXOXOGG AGQGQGQGG AGGGGGGYY AGKGKGKZA2 AGB2GB2GB2AA AC2QAQAQJD2 AE2GE2GE2GGG AGGGGGGGG| LVI | A |
| Guascher and Raiphe in valor like there was | B |
| The one and other Guido famous both | C |
| Germer and Eberard to overpass | D |
| In foul oblivion would my Muse be loth | E |
| With his Gildippes dear Edward alas | D |
| A loving pair to war among them go'th | F |
| In bond of virtuous love together tied | G |
| Together served they and together died | G |
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| LVII | A |
| In school of love are all things taught we see | H |
| There learned this maid of arms the ireful guise | I |
| Still by his side a faithful guard went she | H |
| One true love knot their lives together ties | I |
| No would to one alone could dangerous be | H |
| But each the smart of other's anguish tries | I |
| If one were hurt the other felt the sore | J |
| She lost her blood he spent his life therefore | J |
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| LVIII | A |
| But these and all Rinaldo far exceeds | K |
| Star of his sphere the diamond of this ring | L |
| The nest where courage with sweet mercy breeds | K |
| A comet worthy each eye's wondering | L |
| His years are fewer than his noble deeds | K |
| His fruit is ripe soon as his blossoms spring | L |
| Armed a Mars might coyest Venus move | A |
| And if disarmed then God himself of Love | A |
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| LIX | K |
| Sophia by Adige's flowery bank him bore | J |
| Sophia the fair spouse to Bertoldo great | M |
| Fit mother for that pearl and before | J |
| The tender imp was weaned from the teat | N |
| The Princess Maud him took in Virtue's lore | J |
| She brought him up fit for each worthy feat | N |
| Till of these wares the golden trump he hears | K |
| That soundeth glory fame praise in his ears | K |
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| LX | K |
| And then though scantly three times five years old | O |
| He fled alone by many an unknown coast | P |
| O'er Aegean Seas by many a Greekish hold | O |
| Till he arrived at the Christian host | P |
| A noble flight adventurous brave and bold | O |
| Whereon a valiant prince might justly boast | P |
| Three years he served in field when scant begin | Q |
| Few golden hairs to deck his ivory chin | Q |
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| LXI | K |
| The horsemen past their void left stations fill | R |
| The bands on foot and Reymond them beforn | Q |
| Of Tholouse lord from lands near Piraene Hill | R |
| By Garound streams and salt sea billows worn | Q |
| Four thousand foot he brought well armed and skill | R |
| Had they all pains and travels to have borne | Q |
| Stout men of arms and with their guide of power | S |
| Like Troy's old town defenced with Ilion's tower | S |
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| LXII | K |
| Next Stephen of Amboise did five thousand lead | T |
| The men he prest from Tours and Blois but late | M |
| To hard assays unfit unsure at need | U |
| Yet armed to point in well attempted plate | M |
| The land did like itself the people breed | U |
| The soil is gentle smooth soft delicate | V |
| Boldly they charge but soon retire for doubt | W |
| Like fire of straw soon kindled soon burnt out | W |
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| LXIII | K |
| The third Alcasto marched and with him | X |
| The boaster brought six thousand Switzers bold | O |
| Audacious were their looks their faces grim | X |
| Strong castles on the Alpine clifts they hold | O |
| Their shares and coulters broke to armors trim | X |
| They change that metal cast in warlike mould | O |
| And with this band late herds and flocks that guide | G |
| Now kings and realms he threatened and defied | G |
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| LXIV | A |
| The glorious standard last to Heaven they sprad | G |
| With Peter's keys ennobled and his crown | Q |
| With it seven thousand stout Camillo had | G |
| Embattailed in walls of iron brown | Q |
| In this adventure and occasion glad | G |
| So to revive the Romans' old renown | Q |
| Or prove at least to all of wiser thought | G |
| Their hearts were fertile land although unwrought | G |
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| LXV | A |
| But now was passed every regiment | G |
| Each band each troop each person worth regard | G |
| When Godfrey with his lords to counsel went | G |
| And thus the Duke his princely will declared | G |
| I will when day next clears the firmament | G |
| Our ready host in haste be all prepared | G |
| Closely to march to Sion's noble wall | Y |
| Unseen unheard or undescried at all | Y |
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| LXVI | A |
| Prepare you then for travel strong and light | G |
| Fierce to the combat glad to victory | K |
| And with that word and warning soon was dight | G |
| Each soldier longing for near coming glory | K |
| Impatient be they of the morning bright | G |
| Of honor so them pricked the memory | K |
| But yet their chieftain had conceived a fear | Z |
| Within his heart but kept it secret there | A2 |
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| LXVII | A |
| For he by faithful spial was assured | G |
| That Egypt's King was forward on his way | B2 |
| And to arrive at Gaza old procured | G |
| A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay | B2 |
| Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured | G |
| Will aught forslow or in his journey stay | B2 |
| For well he knew him for a dangerous foe | A |
| An herald called he then and spake him so | A |
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| LXVIII | A |
| A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow | C2 |
| And speed thee Henry to the Greekish main | Q |
| There should arrive as I by letters know | A |
| From one that never aught reports in vain | Q |
| A valiant youth in whom all virtues flow | A |
| To help us this great conquest to obtain | Q |
| The Prince of Danes he is and brings to war | J |
| A troop with him from under the Arctic star | D2 |
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| LXIX | A |
| And for I doubt the Greekish monarch sly | E2 |
| Will use with him some of his wonted craft | G |
| To stay his passage or divert awry | E2 |
| Elsewhere his forces his first journey laft | G |
| My herald good and messenger well try | E2 |
| See that these succors be not us beraft | G |
| But send him thence with such convenient speed | G |
| As with his honor stands and with our need | G |
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| LXX | A |
| Return not thou but Legier stay behind | G |
| And move the Greekish Prince to send us aid | G |
| Tell him his kingly promise doth him bind | G |
| To give us succors by his covenant made | G |
| This said and thus instruct his letters signed | G |
| The trusty herald took nor longer stayed | G |
| But sped him thence to done his Lord's behest | G |
| And thus the Duke reduced his thoughts to rest | G |
Torquato Tasso
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