Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 07 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD DEFEFEFGG DHIHIHIJJ GKLKLKLGG GGGGGGGG| LXXXVI | A |
| I see quoth he some expectation vain | B |
| In these false Christians and some new content | C |
| Our common loss they trust will be their gain | B |
| They laugh we weep they joy while we lament | C |
| And more perchance by treason or by train | B |
| To murder us they secretly consent | C |
| Or otherwise to work us harm and woe | D |
| To ope the gates and so let in our foe | D |
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| LXXXVII | D |
| But lest they should effect their cursed will | E |
| Let us destroy this serpent on his nest | F |
| Both young and old let us this people kill | E |
| The tender infants at their mothers' breast | F |
| Their houses burn their holy temples fill | E |
| With bodies slain of those that loved them best | F |
| And on that tomb they hold so much in price | G |
| Let's offer up their priests in sacrifice | G |
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| LXXXVIII | D |
| Thus thought the tyrant in his traitorous mind | H |
| But durst not follow what he had decreed | I |
| Yet if the innocents some mercy find | H |
| From cowardice not truth did that proceed | I |
| His noble foes durst not his craven kind | H |
| Exasperate by such a bloody deed | I |
| For if he need what grace could then be got | J |
| If thus of peace he broke or loosed the knot | J |
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| LXXXIX | G |
| His villain heart his cursed rage restrained | K |
| To other thoughts he bent his fierce desire | L |
| The suburbs first flat with the earth he plained | K |
| And burnt their buildings with devouring fire | L |
| Loth was the wretch the Frenchman should have gained | K |
| Or help or ease by finding aught entire | L |
| Cedron Bethsaida and each watering else | G |
| Empoisoned he both fountains springs and wells | G |
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| XC | - |
| So wary wise this child of darkness was | G |
| The city's self he strongly fortifies | G |
| Three sides by site it well defenced has | G |
| That's only weak that to the northward lies | G |
| With mighty bars of long enduring brass | G |
| The steel bound doors and iron gates he ties | G |
| And lastly legions armed well provides | G |
| Of subjects born and hired aid besides | G |
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