Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 06 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD AEBEBEBBB ABFBFBFBE FBEBEBEBB FFGGGFGHH FBIBIBIAA FBEBEBEBB FBJBJBJBB ABABABABB ABKBKBKBB ALALALAII AMANAOAEE AEBEBEBBB FGEGEGEPP FBJBJBJQQLXXI | A |
Aurora bright her crystal gates unbarred | B |
And bridegroom like forth stept the glorious sun | C |
When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard | B |
And every one to rouse him fierce begun | C |
Sweet music to each heart for war prepared | B |
The soldiers glad by heaps to harness run | C |
So if with drought endangered be their grain | D |
Poor ploughmen joy when thunders promise rain | D |
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LXXII | A |
Some shirts of mail some coats of plate put on | E |
Some donned a cuirass some a corslet bright | B |
And halbert some and some a habergeon | E |
So every one in arms was quickly dight | B |
His wonted guide each soldier tends upon | E |
Loose in the wind waved their banners light | B |
Their standard royal toward Heaven they spread | B |
The cross triumphant on the Pagans dead | B |
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LXXIII | A |
Meanwhile the car that bears the lightning brand | B |
Upon the eastern hill was mounted high | F |
And smote the glistering armies as they stand | B |
With quivering beams which dazed the wondering eye | F |
That Phaeton like it fired sea and land | B |
The sparkles seemed up to the skies to fly | F |
The horses' neigh and clattering armors' sound | B |
Pursue the echo over dale and down | E |
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LXXIV | F |
Their general did with due care provide | B |
To save his men from ambush and from train | E |
Some troops of horse that lightly armed ride | B |
He sent to scour the woods and forests main | E |
His pioneers their busy work applied | B |
To even the paths and make the highways plain | E |
They filled the pits and smoothed the rougher ground | B |
And opened every strait they closed found | B |
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LXXV | F |
They meet no forces gathered by their foe | F |
No towers defenced with rampire moat or wall | G |
No stream no wood no mountain could forslow | G |
Their hasty pace or stop their march at all | G |
So when his banks the prince of rivers Po | F |
Doth overswell he breaks with hideous fall | G |
The mossy rocks and trees o'ergrown with age | H |
Nor aught withstands his fury and his rage | H |
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LXXVI | F |
The King of Tripoli in every hold | B |
Shut up his men munition and his treasure | I |
The straggling troops sometimes assail he would | B |
Save that he durst not move them to displeasure | I |
He stayed their rage with presents gifts and gold | B |
And led them through his land at ease and leisure | I |
To keep his realm in peace and rest he chose | A |
With what conditions Godfrey list impose | A |
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LXXVII | F |
Those of Mount Seir that neighboreth by east | B |
The Holy City faithful folk each one | E |
Down from the hill descended most and least | B |
And to the Christian Duke by heaps they gone | E |
And welcome him and his with joy and feast | B |
On him they smile on him they gaze alone | E |
And were his guides as faithful from that day | B |
As Hesperus that leads the sun his way | B |
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LXXVIII | F |
Along the sands his armies safe they guide | B |
By ways secure to them well known before | J |
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride | B |
The armed ships coasting along the shore | J |
Which for the camp might every day provide | B |
To bring munition good and victuals store | J |
The isles of Greece sent in provision meet | B |
And store of wine from Scios came and Crete | B |
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LXXIX | A |
Great Neptune grieved underneath the load | B |
Of ships hulks galleys barks and brigantines | A |
In all the mid earth seas was left no road | B |
Wherein the Pagan his bold sails untwines | A |
Spread was the huge Armado wide and broad | B |
From Venice Genes and towns which them confines | A |
From Holland England France and Sicil sent | B |
And all for Juda ready bound and bent | B |
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LXXX | A |
All these together were combined and knit | B |
With surest bonds of love and friendship strong | K |
Together sailed they fraught with all things fit | B |
To service done by land that might belong | K |
And when occasion served disbarked it | B |
Then sailed the Asian coasts and isles along | K |
Thither with speed their hasty course they plied | B |
Where Christ the Lord for our offences died | B |
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LXXXI | A |
The brazen trump of iron winged fame | L |
That mingleth faithful troth with forged lies | A |
Foretold the heathen how the Christians came | L |
How thitherward the conquering army hies | A |
Of every knight it sounds the worth and name | L |
Each troop each band each squadron it descries | A |
And threat'neth death to those fire sword and slaughter | I |
Who held captived Israel's fairest daughter | I |
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LXXXII | A |
The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear | M |
For so our present harms still most annoy us | A |
Each mind is prest and open every ear | N |
To hear new tidings though they no way joy us | A |
This secret rumor whispered everywhere | O |
About the town these Christians will destroy us | A |
The aged king his coming evil that knew | E |
Did cursed thoughts in his false heart renew | E |
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LXXXIII | A |
This aged prince ycleped Aladine | E |
Ruled in care new sovereign of this state | B |
A tyrant erst but now his fell engine | E |
His graver are did somewhat mitigate | B |
He heard the western lords would undermine | E |
His city's wall and lay his towers prostrate | B |
To former fear he adds a new come doubt | B |
Treason he fears within and force without | B |
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LXXXIV | F |
For nations twain inhabit there and dwell | G |
Of sundry faith together in that town | E |
The lesser part on Christ believed well | G |
On Termagent the more and on Mahown | E |
But when this king had made this conquest fell | G |
And brought that region subject to his crown | E |
Of burdens all he set the Paynims large | P |
And on poor Christians laid the double charge | P |
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LXXXV | F |
His native wrath revived with this new thought | B |
With age and years that weakened was of yore | J |
Such madness in his cruel bosom wrought | B |
That now than ever blood he thirsteth more | J |
So stings a snake that to the fire is brought | B |
Which harmless lay benumbed with cold before | J |
A lion so his rage renewed hath | Q |
Though fame before if he be moved to wrath | Q |
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