Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCD A DEDEDEFD A GDDDDDHH A DCDCDCDD A DIGIDIJJ K DLDKDKM K DKDKDKDD K NKNKNFOF K FFFFFFPP K DQDQFQR A NHQDQDKK A SKSKSKQQ A TUTUTUDD A KDHDKDDD A DMDMDMDD K KRKVKVFF K DDKDDDKRLXIV | A |
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'For lo a knight that had a gate to ward | B |
A man of chiefest trust about his king | C |
Hath promised so to beguile the guard | D |
That me and mine he undertakes to bring | C |
Safe where the tyrant haply sleepeth hard | D |
He counselled me to undertake this thing | C |
Of these some little succor to intreat | D |
Whose name accomplish can the feat ' | - |
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LXV | A |
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This said his answer did the nymph attend | D |
Her looks her sighs her gestures all did pray him | E |
But Godfrey did his grant suspend | D |
He the worst and that awhile did stay him | E |
He who no God he loves no friend | D |
He the heathen false would thus betray him | E |
But yet such ruth dwelt in his princely | F |
That gainst his made him kind | D |
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LXVI | A |
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Besides the kindness of his gentle | G |
Ready to each distressed wight | D |
The maiden's offer profit with it brought | D |
For if the Syrian kingdom were her right | D |
That won the way were easy which he sought | D |
To bring all Asia subject to his might | D |
There might he raise munition arms and treasure | H |
To work the Egyptian king and his displeasure | H |
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LXVII | A |
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Thus was his heart long time betwixt | D |
and remorse not granting nor denying | C |
Upon his eyes the dame her lookings fixed | D |
As if her life and death lay on his saying | C |
Some tears she shed with sighs and sobbings mixed | D |
As if her hopes were dead through his delaying | C |
At last her earnest suit the duke denayed | D |
But with sweet words thus would content the maid | D |
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LXVIII | A |
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'If not in service of our God we fought | D |
In meaner quarrel if this sword were shaken | I |
Well might thou gather in thy gentle | G |
So fair a princess should not be forsaken | I |
But since these armies from the world's end brought | D |
To free this sacred town have undertaken | I |
It were unfit we turned our strength away | J |
And victory even in her coming stay | J |
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LXIX | K |
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'I promise thee and on my princely word | D |
The burden of thy wish and hope | L |
That when this chosen temple of the Lord | D |
Her holy doors shall to his saints unclose | K |
In and peace then this victorious sword | D |
Shall execute due vengeance on thy foes | K |
But if for of a worldly dame | M |
I left this work such were my shame ' | - |
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LXX | K |
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At this the princess bent her eyes to ground | D |
And stood unmoved though not unmarked a space | K |
The secret bleeding of her inward wound | D |
Shed heavenly dew upon her angel's face | K |
'Poor wretch ' quoth she 'in tears and drowned | D |
Death be thy peace the grave thy resting place | K |
Since such thy hap that lest thou find | D |
The gentlest heart on earth is proved unkind | D |
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LXXI | K |
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'Where none attends what boots it to complain | N |
Men's froward hearts are moved with women's tears | K |
As marble stones are pierced with drops of rain | N |
No plaints find passage through unwilling ears | K |
The tyrant haply would his wraith restrain | N |
he these prayers ruthless Godfrey | F |
Yet not thy fault is this my chance I | O |
Hath made even pitiless in thee | F |
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LXXII | K |
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'So both thy and hap denayed me | F |
Grief mischief care hath overthrown me | F |
The star that ruled my birthday hath betrayed me | F |
My genius his charge but dares not own me | F |
Of queen like my flight hath disarrayed me | F |
My father died ere he five years had me | F |
My kingdom lost and lastly resteth now | P |
Down with the tree sith broke is every bough | P |
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LXXIII | K |
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'And for the modest lore of maidenhood | D |
Bids me not sojourn with these armed men | Q |
O whither shall I fly what secret wood | D |
Shall hide me from the tyrant or what den | Q |
What rock what vault what cave can do me | F |
No no where death is sure it resteth then | Q |
To scorn his power and be it therefore | R |
Armida lived and died both like a queen ' | - |
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LXXIV | A |
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With that she looked as if a proud disdain | N |
Kindled displeasure in her | H |
The way she came she turned her steps again | Q |
With gesture sad but in disdainful kind | D |
A tempest railed down her cheeks amain | Q |
With tears of woe and sighs of anger's wind | D |
The drops her footsteps wash whereon she treads | K |
And seems to step on pearls or crystal beads | K |
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LXXV | A |
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Her cheeks on which this streaming nectar fell | S |
Stilled through the limbeck of her diamond eyes | K |
The roses white and red resembled well | S |
Whereon the rory May dew sprinkled lies | K |
When the fair morn first blusheth from her cell | S |
And breatheth balm from opened paradise | K |
Thus sighed thus mourned thus wept this lovely queen | Q |
And in each drop bathed a grace unseen | Q |
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LXXVI | A |
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Thrice twenty Cupids unperceived flew | T |
To gather up this liquor ere it fall | U |
And of each drop an arrow forged new | T |
Else as it came snatched up the crystal ball | U |
And at rebellious hearts for wildfire threw | T |
O wondrous love thou makest gain of all | U |
For if she weeping sit or smiling stand | D |
She bends thy bow or kindleth else thy brand | D |
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LXXVII | A |
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This forged plaint drew forth unfeigned tears | K |
From many eyes and pierced each worthy's heart | D |
Each one condoleth with her that her | H |
And of her grief would her bear the smart | D |
If Godfrey aid her not not one but swears | K |
Some tigress gave him suck on roughest part | D |
Midst the rude crags on Alpine cliffs aloft | D |
Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft | D |
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LXXVIII | A |
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But jolly Eustace in whose breast the brand | D |
Of love and kindled had the flame | M |
While others softly whispered underhand | D |
Before the duke with comely boldness came | M |
'Brother and lord ' quoth he 'too long you stand | D |
In your first purpose yet vouchsafe to frame | M |
Your to ours and lend this virgin aid | D |
Thanks are half lost when turns are delayed | D |
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LXXIX | K |
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'And not that Eustace's talk assays | K |
To turn these forces from this present war | R |
Or that I wish you should your armies raise | K |
From Sion's walls my speech tends not so far | V |
But we that venture all for fame and praise | K |
That to no charge nor service bounden are | V |
Forth of our troop may ten well spared be | F |
To succor her which naught can weaken thee | F |
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LXXX | K |
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'And they shall in God's high service fight | D |
That virgins innocent save and defend | D |
Dear will the spoils be in the Heaven's | K |
That from a tyrant's head we rend | D |
Nor seemed I forward in this lady's right | D |
With hope of gain or profit in the end | D |
But for I he arms unworthy bears | K |
To a maiden's cause that shuns or | R |
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