Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBCCC DEFGDGHH IJIJIJCC CKCKLKMM G NMNMNMMM G MCMMMCG G OCOMOCCC G JMJMJMGG G GMGMGMMM C NGNGNGMM C MGPGMGMM G QRQRQRG G MMMMMMMM G MSMTMTGN G MPMNMNMM G G GGGGGG G GMGMGMNG| THE ARGUMENT | A |
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| Gernando scorns Rinaldo should aspire | B |
| To rule that charge for which he seeks and strives | C |
| And slanders him so far that in his ire | B |
| The wronged knight his foe of life deprives | C |
| Far from the camp the slayer doth retire | B |
| Nor lets be bound in chains or gyves | C |
| Armide departs content and from the seas | C |
| Godfrey news which him and his displease | C |
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| While thus Armida false the knights misled | D |
| In wandering errors of love | E |
| And besides the champions promised | F |
| The other lordlings in her aid to move | G |
| In Godfrey's a strong contention bred | D |
| Who fittest were this hazard great to prove | G |
| For all the worthies of the adventures' band | H |
| Were like in birth in power in strength of hand | H |
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| But first the prince by grave advice decreed | I |
| They should some knight choose at their own election | J |
| That in his charge Lord Dudon might succeed | I |
| And of that glorious troop should take protection | J |
| So none should grieve displeased with the deed | I |
| Nor blame the causer of their new subjection | J |
| Besides Godfredo showed by this device | C |
| How much he held that regiment in price | C |
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| III | - |
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| He called the worthies then and spake them so | C |
| 'Lordlings you I yielded to your will | K |
| And gave you license with this dame to go | C |
| To win her kingdom and that tyrant kill | K |
| But now again I let you further | L |
| In following her it may betide yon ill | K |
| Refrain therefore and change this forward | M |
| For death unsent for danger comes unsought | M |
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| IV | G |
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| 'But if to shun these perils sought so far | N |
| May seem disgraceful to the place yon hold | M |
| If grave advice and counsel are | N |
| Esteemed detractors from your courage bold | M |
| Then I none against his will debar | N |
| Nor what I granted erst I now withhold | M |
| But he mine empire as it ought of right | M |
| Sweet easy gentle meek and light | M |
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| V | G |
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| 'Go then or tarry each as likes him best | M |
| Free power I grant you on this enterprise | C |
| But first in Dudon's place now laid in chest | M |
| Choose you some other captain stout and | M |
| Then ten appoint among the worthiest | M |
| But let no more attempt this hard emprise | C |
| In this my will content you that I have | G |
| For power constrained is but a glorious slave ' | - |
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| VI | G |
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| Thus Godfrey said and thus his brother spake | O |
| And answered for and all his peers | C |
| 'My lord as well it fitteth thee to make | O |
| These delays and cast these and | M |
| So 'tis our part at first to undertake | O |
| Courage and haste beseems our might and years | C |
| And this proceeding with so grave advice | C |
| in you in us were cowardice | C |
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| VII | G |
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| 'Since then the feat is easy danger none | J |
| All set in battle and in hardy fight | M |
| Do thou permit the chosen ten to gone | J |
| And aid the damsel ' thus devised the knight | M |
| To make men the sun of honor shone | J |
| There where the lamp of Cupid gave the light | M |
| The his guile and it approve | G |
| And call that knighthood which was childish love | G |
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| VIII | G |
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| But loving Eustace that with eye | G |
| Beheld the worth of Sophia's child | M |
| And his fair shape did secretly envy | G |
| Besides the in his breast compiled | M |
| And for in love he would no company | G |
| He stored his mouth with speeches smoothly filed | M |
| Drawing his rival to attend his word | M |
| Thus with fair sleight he laid the knight abord | M |
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| IX | C |
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| 'Of great Bertoldo thou far greater heir | N |
| Thou star of knighthood flower of chivalry | G |
| Tell me who now shall lead this squadron fair | N |
| Since our late guide in marble cold doth lie | G |
| I that with famous Dudon might compare | N |
| In all but years hoar locks and gravity | G |
| To whom should I Duke Godfrey's brother yield | M |
| Unless to thee the Christian army's shield | M |
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| X | C |
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| 'Thee whom high birth makes equal with the best | M |
| Thine acts prefer both me and all beforn | G |
| Nor that in fight thou both surpass the | P |
| And Godfrey's worthy I hold in scorn | G |
| Thee to obey then am I only pressed | M |
| Before these worthies be thine eagle borne | G |
| This honor haply thou esteemest light | M |
| Whose day of glory never yet found night | M |
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| XI | G |
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| 'Yet mayest thou further by this means display | Q |
| The spreading wings of thy immortal fame | R |
| I will procure it if thou sayest not nay | Q |
| And all their wills to thine election frame | R |
| But for I scantly am resolved which way | Q |
| To bend my force or where employ the same | R |
| Leave me I pray at my discretion free | G |
| To Armida or serve here with thee ' | - |
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| XII | G |
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| This last request for love is evil to hide | M |
| Empurpled both his cheeks with scarlet red | M |
| Rinaldo soon his passions had descried | M |
| And gently smiling turned aside his head | M |
| And for weak Cupid was too feeble eyed | M |
| To strike him sure the fire in him was dead | M |
| So that of rivals was he naught afraid | M |
| Nor cared he for the journey or the maid | M |
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| XIII | G |
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| But in his revolved he oft | M |
| Dudon's high prowess death and burial | S |
| And how Argantes bore his plumes aloft | M |
| Praising his fortunes for that worthy's fall | T |
| Besides the knight's sweet words and praises soft | M |
| To his due honor did him fitly call | T |
| And made his heart rejoice for well he | G |
| Though much he praised him all his words were | N |
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| XIV | G |
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| 'Degrees ' quoth he 'of honors high to hold | M |
| I would them first deserve and the | P |
| And were my valor such as you have told | M |
| Would I for that to higher place aspire | N |
| But if to honors due raise me you would | M |
| I will not of my works refuse the hire | N |
| And much it glads me that my power and might | M |
| Ypraised is by such a valiant knight | M |
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| XV | G |
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| 'I neither seek it nor refuse the place | G |
| Which if I get the praise and thanks be thine ' | - |
| Eustace this spoken hied thence apace | G |
| To which way his fellows' hearts incline | G |
| But Prince Gernando coveted the place | G |
| Whom though Armida sought to undermine | G |
| Gainst him yet vain did all her engines prove | G |
| His pride was such there was no place for love | G |
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| XVI | G |
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| Gernando was the King of Norway's son | G |
| That many a realm and region had to guide | M |
| And for his elders lands and crowns had won | G |
| His heart was puffed up with endless pride | M |
| The other boasts more what had done | G |
| Than all his ancestors' great acts beside | M |
| Yet his forefathers old before him were | N |
| Famous in war and peace five hundred years | G |
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