Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD EFEFEFGG HIHIJIKK K K K KK LLM L KK KKKKKKIN OKPKQKRR MKMKMKKK SKSKTKNN TLTLTLTTT TULULUL TKKKKKKKK TKNKNKNVV TKKKKKKKK K K KKK KKKKKKKKTHE ARGUMENT | A |
The camp at great Jerusalem arrives | B |
Clorinda gives them battle in the breast | C |
Of fair Erminia Tancred's love revives | B |
He jousts with her unknown whom he loved best | C |
Argant th' adventurers of their guide deprives | B |
With stately pomp they lay their Lord in chest | C |
Godfrey commands to cut the forest down | D |
And make strong engines to assault the town | D |
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I | - |
The purple morning left her crimson bed | E |
And donned her robes of pure vermilion hue | F |
Her amber locks she crowned with roses red | E |
In Eden's flowery gardens gathered new | F |
When through the camp a murmur shrill was spread | E |
Arm arm they cried arm arm the trumpets blew | F |
Their merry noise prevents the joyful blast | G |
So hum small bees before their swarms they cast | G |
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II | - |
Their captain rules their courage guides their heat | H |
Their forwardness he stayed with gentle rein | I |
And yet more easy haply were the feat | H |
To stop the current near Charybdis main | I |
Or calm the blustering winds on mountains great | J |
Than fierce desires of warlike hearts restrain | I |
He rules them yet and ranks them in their haste | K |
For well he knows disordered speed makes waste | K |
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III | - |
Feathered their thoughts their feet in wings were dight | K |
Swiftly they marched yet were not tired thereby | - |
For willing minds make heaviest burdens light | K |
But when the gliding sun was mounted high | - |
Jerusalem behold appeared in sight | K |
Jerusalem they view they see they spy | - |
Jerusalem with merry noise they greet | K |
With joyful shouts and acclamations sweet | K |
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IV | - |
As when a troop of jolly sailors row | L |
Some new found land and country to descry | L |
Through dangerous seas and under stars unknowe | M |
Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky | - |
If once the wished shore begun to show | L |
They all salute it with a joyful cry | - |
And each to other show the land in haste | K |
Forgetting quite their pains and perils past | K |
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V | - |
To that delight which their first sight did breed | K |
That pleased so the secret of their thought | K |
A deep repentance did forthwith succeed | K |
That reverend fear and trembling with it brought | K |
Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispreed | K |
Upon that town where Christ was sold and bought | K |
Where for our sins he faultless suffered pain | I |
There where he died and where he lived again | N |
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VI | - |
Soft words low speech deep sobs sweet sighs salt tears | O |
Rose from their hearts with joy and pleasure mixed | K |
For thus fares he the Lord aright that fears | P |
Fear on devotion joy on faith is fixed | K |
Such noise their passions make as when one hears | Q |
The hoarse sea waves roar hollow rocks betwixt | K |
Or as the wind in holts and shady greaves | R |
A murmur makes among the boughs and leaves | R |
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VII | - |
Their naked feet trod on the dusty way | M |
Following the ensample of their zealous guide | K |
Their scarfs their crests their plumes and feathers gay | M |
They quickly doffed and willing laid aside | K |
Their molten hearts their wonted pride allay | M |
Along their watery cheeks warm tears down slide | K |
And then such secret speech as this they used | K |
While to himself each one himself accused | K |
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VIII | - |
Flower of goodness root of lasting bliss | S |
Thou well of life whose streams were purple blood | K |
That flowed here to cleanse the soul amiss | S |
Of sinful men behold this brutish flood | K |
That from my melting heart distilled is | T |
Receive in gree these tears O Lord so good | K |
For never wretch with sin so overgone | N |
Had fitter time or greater cause to moan | N |
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IX | T |
This while the wary watchman looked over | L |
From tops of Sion's towers the hills and dales | T |
And saw the dust the fields and pastures cover | L |
As when thick mists arise from moory vales | T |
At last the sun bright shields he gan discover | L |
And glistering helms for violence none that fails | T |
The metal shone like lightning bright in skies | T |
And man and horse amid the dust descries | T |
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X | T |
Then loud he cries O what a dust ariseth | U |
O how it shines with shields and targets clear | L |
Up up to arms for valiant heart despiseth | U |
The threatened storm of death and danger near | L |
Behold your foes then further thus deviseth | U |
Haste haste for vain delay increaseth fear | L |
These horrid clouds of dust that yonder fly | - |
Your coming foes does hide and hide the sky | - |
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XI | T |
The tender children and the fathers old | K |
The aged matrons and the virgin chaste | K |
That durst not shake the spear nor target hold | K |
Themselves devoutly in their temples placed | K |
The rest of members strong and courage bold | K |
On hardy breasts their harness donned in haste | K |
Some to the walls some to the gates them dight | K |
Their king meanwhile directs them all aright | K |
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XII | T |
All things well ordered he withdrew with speed | K |
Up to a turret high two ports between | N |
That so he might be near at every need | K |
And overlook the lands and furrows green | N |
Thither he did the sweet Erminia lead | K |
That in his court had entertained been | N |
Since Christians Antioch did to bondage bring | V |
And slew her father who thereof was king | V |
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XIII | T |
Against their foes Clorinda sallied out | K |
And many a baron bold was by her side | K |
Within the postern stood Argantes stout | K |
To rescue her if ill mote her betide | K |
With speeches brave she cheered her warlike rout | K |
And with bold words them heartened as they ride | K |
Let us by some brave act quoth she this day | K |
Of Asia's hopes the groundwork found and lay | K |
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XIV | - |
While to her folk thus spake the virgin brave | - |
Thereby behold forth passed a Christian band | K |
Toward the camp that herds of cattle drave | - |
For they that morn had forayed all the land | K |
The fierce virago would that booty save | - |
Whom their commander singled hand for hand | K |
A mighty man at arms who Guardo hight | K |
But far too weak to match with her in fight | K |
XV | - |
They met and low in dust was Guardo laid | K |
'Twixt either army from his sell down kest | K |
The Pagans shout for joy and hopeful said | K |
Those good beginnings would have endings blest | K |
Against the rest on went the noble maid | K |
She broke the helm and pierced the armed breast | K |
Her men the paths rode through made by her sword | K |
They pass the stream where she had found the ford | K |
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