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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 06 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A AAAAAAB A CDCECEAA A F FGHGAA I AJA AKII I LMNMNMAO I PHPHPHCC I QKRKGKSS I QTQTQTTI A AUVUGUWX H YZYZA2ZII A ZZZZZZAA A AAAAAAOL A TATTATII I ZAZAZAB2B2 I TTTZTZTT I ZAZAZAIT

LXXXI	A
	-
'Ah be it not pardie declared in France	A
Or elsewhere told where courtesy is in prize	A
That we forsook so fair a chevisance	A
For or that might from fight arise	A
Else here surrender I both sword and lance	A
And swear no more to use this martial guise	A
For ill deserves he to be termed a knight	B
That bears a blunt sword in a lady's right '	-
	-
LXXXII	A
	-
Thus parleyed he and with sound	C
The approved what the gallant said	D
Their general their knights encompassed round	C
With humble grace and earnest suit they prayed	E
'I yield ' quoth he 'and it be found	C
What I have granted let her have your aid	E
Yours be the thanks for yours the danger is	A
If aught succeed as much I amiss	A
	-
LXXXIII	A
	-
'But if with you my words may credit find	F
Oh temper then this heat misguides you so '	-
Thus much he said but they with fancy blind	F
his grant and let his counsel go	G
What works not beauty man's relenting	H
Is eath to move with plaints and shows of woe	G
Her lips cast forth a chain of sugared words	A
That captive led most of the Christian lords	A
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LXXXIV	I
	-
Eustace recalled her and bespake her thus	A
'Beauty's chief darling let those be	J
For such assistance shall you find in us	A
As with your need or will may best agree '	-
With that she cheered her forehead dolorous	A
And smiled for that Phoebus blushed to	K
And had she deigned her veil for to remove	I
The God once more had fallen in love	I
	-
LXXXV	I
	-
With that she broke the silence once again	L
And gave the knight great thanks in little speech	M
She said she would his handmaid poor remain	N
So far as honor's laws received no breach	M
Her humble gestures made the residue plain	N
Dumb eloquence persuading more than speech	M
Thus women and thus they use the guise	A
To enchant the valiant and beguile the	O
	-
LXXXVI	I
	-
And when she her enterprise had got	P
Some wished mean of quick and proceeding	H
She to strike the iron that was hot	P
For every action hath his hour of speeding	H
Medea or false Circe changed not	P
So far the shapes of men as her eyes spreading	H
Altered their hearts and with her syren's sound	C
In lust their their hearts in love she drowned	C
	-
LXXXVII	I
	-
All wily sleights that subtle women	Q
Hourly she used to catch some lover new	K
None kenned the bent of her unsteadfast bow	R
For with the time her her looks renew	K
From some she cast her modest eyes below	G
At some her gazing glances roving flew	K
And while she thus pursued her wanton sport	S
She spurred the slow and reined the forward short	S
	-
LXXXVIII	I
	-
If some as hopeless that she would be won	Q
Forebore to love because they durst not move her	T
On them her gentle looks to smile begun	Q
As who say she is kind if you dare prove her	T
On every heart thus shone this lustful sun	Q
All strove to serve to please to woo to love her	T
And in their hearts that chaste and bashful were	T
Her eye's hot glance dissolved the frost of	I
	-
LXXXIX	A
	-
On them who durst with fingering bold assay	A
To the softness of her tender skin	U
She looked as coy as if she list not play	V
And made as things of worth were hard to win	U
Yet tempered so her deignful looks alway	G
That outward scorn showed store of grace within	U
Thus with false hope their longing hearts she fired	W
For hardest gotten things are most	X
	-
XC	H
	-
Sometimes she walked in secret where	Y
To ruminate upon her discontent	Z
Within her eyelids the swelling tear	Y
Not poured forth though sprung from sad lament	Z
And with this craft a thousand well near	A2
In snares of foolish ruth and love she hent	Z
And kept as slaves by which we fitly prove	I
That witless breedeth fruitless love	I
	-
XCI	A
	-
Sometimes as if her hope unloosed had	Z
The chains of grief wherein her lay fettered	Z
Upon her minions looked she blithe and glad	Z
In that lore so was she lettered	Z
Not glorious Titan in his brightness clad	Z
The sunshine of her face in lustre bettered	Z
For when she list to cheer her beauties so	A
She smiled away the clouds of grief and woe	A
	-
XCII	A
	-
Her double charm of smiles and sugared words	A
Lulled on sleep the of their senses	A
Reason shall aid gainst those assaults affords	A
no warrant from those sweet offences	A
Cupid's deep rivers have their shallow fords	A
His griefs bring his losses recompenses	A
He breeds the sore and cures us of the	O
Achilles' lance that wounds and heals again	L
	-
XCIII	A
	-
While thus she them torments twixt frost and fire	T
Twixt and grief twixt hope and restless	A
The sly enchantress her gain the nigher	T
These were her flocks that golden fleeces bear	T
But if someone durst utter his	A
And by complaining make his griefs appear	T
He labored hard rocks with plaints to move	I
She had not learned the gamut then of love	I
	-
XCIV	I
	-
For down she bet her bashful eyes to ground	Z
And donned the weed of women's modest grace	A
Down from her eyes welled the pearls round	Z
Upon the bright enamel of her face	A
Such honey drops on springing flowers are found	Z
When Phoebus holds the crimson morn in chase	A
Full seemed her looks of and of shame	B2
Yet shone transparent through the same	B2
	-
XCV	I
	-
If she by his outward cheer	T
That any would his love by talk bewray	T
Sometimes she him sometimes stopped her ear	T
And played fast and loose the livelong day	Z
Thus all her lovers kind deluded were	T
Their earnest suit got neither yea nor nay	Z
But like the sort of weary huntsmen fare	T
That hunt all day and lose at night the hare	T
	-
XCVI	I
	-
These were the arts by which she captived	Z
A thousand of young and lusty knights	A
These were the arms wherewith love conquered	Z
Their feeble hearts subdued in wanton fights	A
What wonder if Achilles were misled	Z
Of great Alcides at their ladies'	A
Since these champions of the Lord above	I
Were thralls to beauty yielden slaves to lore	T

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