Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBCEE AFGHGHGAA ACICJCJKK GLMLNLNOO GHGHGHHH JPJPJPGG HHHHHH HCHCHCHH AGJGJGJHH AQRQRQRHH AGSGSGSHH AJGJGJGMN AHJHJHJTT GHHHHHHHH GHHHHHHHH GH H H GG GGHGHGHGG GHHHHHHHH AHAHAHA AHHHHHHHHXLVI | A |
Sir King quoth she my name Clorinda hight | B |
My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now | C |
I come to try my wonted power and might | B |
And will defend this land this town and you | D |
All hard assays esteem I eath and light | B |
Great acts I reach to to small things I bow | C |
To fight in field or to defend this wall | E |
Point what you list I naught refuse at all | E |
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XLVII | A |
To whom the king What land so far remote | F |
From Asia's coasts or Phoebus' glistering rays | G |
O glorious virgin that recordeth not | H |
Thy fame thine honor worth renown and praise | G |
Since on my side I have thy succors got | H |
I need not fear in these my aged days | G |
For in thine aid more hope more trust I have | A |
Than in whole armies of these soldiers brave | A |
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XLVIII | A |
Now Godfrey stays too long he fears I ween | C |
Thy courage great keeps all our foes in awe | I |
For thee all actions far unworthy been | C |
But such as greatest danger with them draw | J |
Be you commandress therefore Princess Queen | C |
Of all our forces be thy word a law | J |
This said the virgin gan her beaver vail | K |
And thanked him first and thus began her tale | K |
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XLIX | G |
A thing unused great monarch may it seem | L |
To ask reward for service yet to come | M |
But so your virtuous bounty I esteem | L |
That I presume for to intreat this groom | N |
And silly maid from danger to redeem | L |
Condemned to burn by your unpartial doom | N |
I not excuse but pity much their youth | O |
And come to you for mercy and for ruth | O |
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L | - |
Yet give me leave to tell your Highness this | G |
You blame the Christians them my thoughts acquite | H |
Nor be displeased I say you judge amiss | G |
At every shot look not to hit the white | H |
All what the enchanter did persuade you is | G |
Against the lore of Macon's sacred rite | H |
For us commandeth mighty Mahomet | H |
No idols in his temple pure to set | H |
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LI | - |
To him therefore this wonder done refar | J |
Give him the praise and honor of the thing | P |
Of us the gods benign so careful are | J |
Lest customs strange into their church we bring | P |
Let Ismen with his squares and trigons war | J |
His weapons be the staff the glass the ring | P |
But let us manage war with blows like knights | G |
Our praise in arms our honor lies in fights | G |
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LII | - |
The virgin held her peace when this was said | H |
And though to pity he never framed his thought | H |
Yet for the king admired the noble maid | H |
His purpose was not to deny her aught | H |
I grant them life quoth he your promised aid | H |
Against these Frenchmen hath their pardon bought | H |
Nor further seek what their offences be | - |
Guiltless I quit guilty I set them free | - |
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LIII | - |
Thus were they loosed happiest of humankind | H |
Olindo blessed be this act of thine | C |
True witness of thy great and heavenly mind | H |
Where sun moon stars of love faith virtue shine | C |
So forth they went and left pale death behind | H |
To joy the bliss of marriage rites divine | C |
With her he would have died with him content | H |
Was she to live that would with her have brent | H |
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LIV | A |
The king as wicked thoughts are most suspicious | G |
Supposed too fast this tree of virtue grew | J |
O blessed Lord why should this Pharaoh vicious | G |
Thus tyrannize upon thy Hebrews true | J |
Who to perform his will vile and malicious | G |
Exiled these and all the faithful crew | J |
All that were strong of body stout of mind | H |
But kept their wives and children pledge behind | H |
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LV | A |
A hard division when the harmless sheep | Q |
Must leave their lambs to hungry wolves in charge | R |
But labor's virtues watching ease her sleep | Q |
Trouble best wind that drives salvation's barge | R |
The Christians fled whither they took no keep | Q |
Some strayed wild among the forests large | R |
Some to Emmaus to the Christian host | H |
And conquer would again their houses lost | H |
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LVI | A |
Emmaus is a city small that lies | G |
From Sion's walls distant a little way | S |
A man that early on the morn doth rise | G |
May thither walk ere third hour of the day | S |
Oh when the Christian lord this town espies | G |
How merry were their hearts How fresh How gay | S |
But for the sun inclined fast to west | H |
That night there would their chieftain take his rest | H |
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LVII | A |
Their canvas castles up they quickly rear | J |
And build a city in an hour's space | G |
When lo disguised in unusual gear | J |
Two barons bold approachen gan the place | G |
Their semblance kind and mild their gestures were | J |
Peace in their hands and friendship in their face | G |
From Egypt's king ambassadors they come | M |
Them many a squire attends and many a groom | N |
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LVIII | A |
The first Aletes born in lowly shed | H |
Of parents base a rose sprung from a brier | J |
That now his branches over Egypt spread | H |
No plant in Pharaoh's garden prospered higher | J |
With pleasing tales his lord's vain ears he fed | H |
A flatterer a pick thank and a liar | J |
Cursed be estate got with so many a crime | T |
Yet this is oft the stair by which men climb | T |
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LIX | G |
Argantes called is that other knight | H |
A stranger came he late to Egypt land | H |
And there advanced was to honor's height | H |
For he was stout of courage strong of hand | H |
Bold was his heart and restless was his sprite | H |
Fierce stern outrageous keen as sharpened brand | H |
Scorner of God scant to himself a friend | H |
And pricked his reason on his weapon's end | H |
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LX | G |
These two entreatance made they might be heard | H |
Nor was their just petition long denied | H |
The gallants quickly made their court of guard | H |
And brought them in where sate their famous guide | H |
Whose kingly look his princely mind declared | H |
Where noblesse virtue troth and valor bide | H |
A slender courtesy made Argantes bold | H |
So as one prince salute another wold | H |
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LXI | G |
Aletes laid his right hand on his heart | H |
Bent down his head and cast his eyes full low | - |
And reverence made with courtly grace and art | H |
For all that humble lore to him was know | - |
His sober lips then did he softly part | H |
Whence of pure rhetoric whole streams outflow | - |
And thus he said while on the Christian lords | G |
Down fell the mildew of his sugared words | G |
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LXII | G |
O only worthy whom the earth all fears | G |
High God defend thee with his heavenly shield | H |
And humble so the hearts of all thy peers | G |
That their stiff necks to thy sweet yoke may yield | H |
These be the sheaves that honor's harvest bears | G |
The seed thy valiant acts the world the field | H |
Egypt the headland is where heaped lies | G |
Thy fame worth justice wisdom victories | G |
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LXIII | G |
These altogether doth our sovereign hide | H |
In secret store house of his princely thought | H |
And prays he may in long accordance bide | H |
With that great worthy which such wonders wrought | H |
Nor that oppose against the coming tide | H |
Of proffered love for that he is not taught | H |
Your Christian faith for though of divers kind | H |
The loving vine about her elm is twined | H |
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LXIV | A |
Receive therefore in that unconquered hand | H |
The precious handle of this cup of love | A |
If not religion virtue be the band | H |
'Twixt you to fasten friendship not to move | A |
But for our mighty king doth understand | H |
You mean your power 'gainst Juda land to prove | A |
He would before this threatened tempest fell | - |
I should his mind and princely will first tell | - |
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LXV | A |
His mind is this he prays thee be contented | H |
To joy in peace the conquests thou hast got | H |
Be not thy death or Sion's fall lamented | H |
Forbear this land Judea trouble not | H |
Things done in haste at leisure be repented | H |
Withdraw thine arms trust not uncertain lot | H |
For oft to see what least we think betide | H |
He is thy friend 'gainst all the world beside | H |
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