Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD AAEAFAEGGADHDHDHII HJIJIJIKK HIJIJIJEE HLILILIII HIHIHIHII HAIAIAIHH AIIIIIIMM ANANANAHHXI | A |
But when the angry king discovered not | B |
What guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought | C |
His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hot | B |
Against the Christians whom he faulters thought | C |
All ruth compassion mercy he forgot | B |
A staff to beat that dog he long had sought | C |
Let them all die quoth he kill great and small | D |
So shall the offender perish sure withal | D |
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XII | A |
To spill the wine with poison mixed with spares | A |
Slay then the righteous with the faulty one | E |
Destroy this field that yieldeth naught but tares | A |
With thorns this vineyard all is over gone | F |
Among these wretches is not one that cares | A |
For us our laws or our religion | E |
Up up dear subjects fire and weapon take | G |
Burn murder kill these traitors for my sake | G |
XIII | A |
This Herod thus would Bethlem's infants kill | D |
The Christians soon this direful news receave | H |
The trump of death sounds in their hearing shrill | D |
Their weapon faith their fortress was the grave | H |
They had no courage time device or will | D |
To fight to fly excuse or pardon crave | H |
But stood prepared to die yet help they find | I |
Whence least they hope such knots can Heaven unbind | I |
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XIV | H |
Among them dwelt her parents' joy and pleasure | J |
A maid whose fruit was ripe not over yeared | I |
Her beauty was her not esteemed treasure | J |
The field of love with plough of virtue eared | I |
Her labor goodness godliness her leisure | J |
Her house the heaven by this full moon aye cleared | I |
For there from lovers' eyes withdrawn alone | K |
With virgin beams this spotless Cynthia shone | K |
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XV | H |
But what availed her resolution chaste | I |
Whose soberest looks were whetstones to desire | J |
Nor love consents that beauty's field lie waste | I |
Her visage set Olindo's heart on fire | J |
O subtle love a thousand wiles thou hast | I |
By humble suit by service or by hire | J |
To win a maiden's hold a thing soon done | E |
For nature framed all women to be won | E |
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XVI | H |
Sophronia she Olindo hight the youth | L |
Both or one town both in one faith were taught | I |
She fair he full of bashfulness and truth | L |
Loved much hoped little and desired nought | I |
He durst not speak by suit to purchase ruth | L |
She saw not marked not wist not what he sought | I |
Thus loved thus served he long but not regarded | I |
Unseen unmarked unpitied unrewarded | I |
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XVII | H |
To her came message of the murderment | I |
Wherein her guiltless friends should hopeless starve | H |
She that was noble wise as fair and gent | I |
Cast how she might their harmless lives preserve | H |
Zeal was the spring whence flowed her hardiment | I |
From maiden shame yet was she loth to swerve | H |
Yet had her courage ta'en so sure a hold | I |
That boldness shamefaced shame had made her bold | I |
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XVIII | H |
And forth she went a shop for merchandise | A |
Full of rich stuff but none for sale exposed | I |
A veil obscured the sunshine of her eyes | A |
The rose within herself her sweetness closed | I |
Each ornament about her seemly lies | A |
By curious chance or careless art composed | I |
For what the most neglects most curious prove | H |
So Beauty's helped by Nature Heaven and Love | H |
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XIX | A |
Admired of all on went this noble maid | I |
Until the presence of the king she gained | I |
Nor for he swelled with ire was she afraid | I |
But his fierce wrath with fearless grace sustained | I |
I come quoth she but be thine anger stayed | I |
And causeless rage 'gainst faultless souls restrained | I |
I come to show thee and to bring thee both | M |
The wight whose fact hath made thy heart so wroth | M |
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XX | A |
Her molest boldness and that lightning ray | N |
Which her sweet beauty streamed on his face | A |
Had struck the prince with wonder and dismay | N |
Changed his cheer and cleared his moody grace | A |
That had her eyes disposed their looks to play | N |
The king had snared been in love's strong lace | A |
But wayward beauty doth not fancy move | H |
A frown forbids a smile engendereth love | H |
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