Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD BEBEBEBFF BGHGHHHII JHHHHHHKK JBHBHBHJJ JLHLHLHHH JMHNHNHHH JHBHBHBBB BBHBHBHBB BHHHHHHAABHHHHHHOO BBPBQBPHH BHBHBHBHH JHRHRHRHH JHSHSHSTT JUHUHUHUULXI | A |
Presages ah too true with that a space | B |
He sighed for grief then said Fain would I know | C |
The man in red with such a knightly grace | B |
A worthy lord he seemeth by his show | C |
How like to Godfrey looks he in the face | B |
How like in person but some deal more low | C |
Baldwin quoth she that noble baron hight | D |
By birth his brother and his match in might | D |
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LXII | B |
Next look on him that seems for counsel fit | E |
Whose silver locks betray his store of days | B |
Raymond he hight a man of wondrous wit | E |
Of Toulouse lord his wisdom is his praise | B |
What he forethinks doth as he looks for hit | E |
His stratagems have good success always | B |
With gilded helm beyond him rides the mild | F |
And good Prince William England's king's dear child | F |
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LXIII | B |
With him is Guelpho as his noble mate | G |
In birth in acts in arms alike the rest | H |
I know him well since I beheld him late | G |
By his broad shoulders and his squared breast | H |
But my proud foe that quite hath ruinate | H |
My high estate and Antioch opprest | H |
I see not Boemond that to death did bring | I |
Mine aged lord my father and my king | I |
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LXIV | J |
Thus talked they meanwhile Godfredo went | H |
Down to the troops that in the valley stayed | H |
And for in vain he thought the labor spent | H |
To assail those parts that to the mountains laid | H |
Against the northern gate his force he bent | H |
Gainst it he camped gainst it his engines played | H |
All felt the fury of his angry power | K |
That from those gates lies to the corner tower | K |
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LXV | J |
The town's third part was this or little less | B |
Fore which the duke his glorious ensigns spread | H |
For so great compass had that forteress | B |
That round it could not be environed | H |
With narrow siege nor Babel's king I guess | B |
That whilom took it such an army led | H |
But all the ways he kept by which his foe | J |
Might to or from the city come or go | J |
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LXVI | J |
His care was next to cast the trenches deep | L |
So to preserve his resting camp by night | H |
Lest from the city while his soldiers sleep | L |
They might assail them with untimely flight | H |
This done he went where lords and princes weep | L |
With dire complaints about the murdered knight | H |
Where Dudon dead lay slaughtered on the ground | H |
And all the soldiers sat lamenting round | H |
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LXVII | J |
His wailing friends adorned the mournful bier | M |
With woful pomp whereon his corpse they laid | H |
And when they saw the Bulloigne prince draw near | N |
All felt new grief and each new sorrow made | H |
But he withouten show or change of cheer | N |
His springing tears within their fountains stayed | H |
His rueful looks upon the corpse he cast | H |
Awhile and thus bespake the same at last | H |
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LXVIII | J |
We need not mourn for thee here laid to rest | H |
Earth is thy bed and not the grave the skies | B |
Are for thy soul the cradle and the nest | H |
There live for here thy glory never dies | B |
For like a Christian knight and champion blest | H |
Thou didst both live and die now feed thine eyes | B |
With thy Redeemer's sight where crowned with bliss | B |
Thy faith zeal merit well deserving is | B |
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LXIX | B |
Our loss not thine provokes these plaints and tears | B |
For when we lost thee then our ship her mast | H |
Our chariot lost her wheels their points our spears | B |
The bird of conquest her chief feather cast | H |
But though thy death far from our army hears | B |
Her chiefest earthly aid in heaven yet placed | H |
Thou wilt procure its help Divine so reaps | B |
He that sows godly sorrow joy by heaps | B |
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LXX | B |
For if our God the Lord Armipotent | H |
Those armed angels in our aid down send | H |
That were at Dothan to his prophet sent | H |
Thou wilt come down with them and well defend | H |
Our host and with thy sacred weapons bent | H |
Gainst Sion's fort these gates and bulwarks rend | H |
That so by hand may win this hold and we | A |
May in these temples praise our Christ for thee | A |
LXXI | B |
Thus he complained but now the sable shade | H |
Ycleped night had thick enveloped | H |
The sun in veil of double darkness made | H |
Sleep eased care rest brought complaint to bed | H |
All night the wary duke devising laid | H |
How that high wall should best be battered | H |
How his strong engines he might aptly frame | O |
And whence get timber fit to build the same | O |
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LXXII | B |
Up with the lark the sorrowful duke arose | B |
A mourner chief at Dudon's burial | P |
Of cypress sad a pile his friends compose | B |
Under a hill o'ergrown with cedars tall | Q |
Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows | B |
Ennobled since by this great funeral | P |
Where Dudon's corpse they softly laid in ground | H |
The priest sung hymns the soldiers wept around | H |
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LXXIII | B |
Among the boughs they here and there bestow | H |
Ensigns and arms as witness of his praise | B |
Which he from Pagan lords that did them owe | H |
Had won in prosperous fights and happy frays | B |
His shield they fixed on the hole below | H |
And there this distich under writ which says | B |
This palm with stretched arms doth overspread | H |
The champion Dudon's glorious carcase dead | H |
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LXXIV | J |
This work performed with advisement good | H |
Godfrey his carpenters and men of skill | R |
In all the camp sent to an aged wood | H |
With convoy meet to guard them safe from ill | R |
Within a valley deep this forest stood | H |
To Christian eyes unseen unknown until | R |
A Syrian told the duke who thither sent | H |
Those chosen workmen that for timber went | H |
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LXXV | J |
And now the axe raged in the forest wild | H |
The echo sighed in the groves unseen | S |
The weeping nymphs fled from their bowers exiled | H |
Down fell the shady tops of shaking treen | S |
Down came the sacred palms the ashes wild | H |
The funeral cypress holly ever green | S |
The weeping fir thick beech and sailing pine | T |
The married elm fell with his fruitful vine | T |
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LXXVI | J |
The shooter grew the broad leaved sycamore | U |
The barren plantain and the walnut sound | H |
The myrrh that her foul sin doth still deplore | U |
The alder owner of all waterish ground | H |
Sweet juniper whose shadow hurteth sore | U |
Proud cedar oak the king of forests crowned | H |
Thus fell the trees with noise the deserts roar | U |
The beasts their caves the birds their nests forlore | U |
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