Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 02 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCEE C FGFGHGIJ K LBLBLMCB K NONONOPP N NJNINIQQ N NNNNNNBB N GRGRGROO C OOOOOOOO C STSTSTOO C OUOUOUOO C OIOIOOOO C VWVOOONN N OUOUOUXO N YOYOYONN N OOOOOOYY N IVIOBOZOXVII | A |
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This barbarous prince who only vainly | B |
That in wealth and kingly power doth lie | C |
And in respect esteemed all naught | D |
Unless it were adorned with titles high | C |
Could not endure that to the place he sought | D |
A simple knight should dare to press so nigh | C |
And in his breast so boiled fell despite | E |
That ire and wrath exiled reason quite | E |
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XVIII | C |
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The hidden devil that lies in close await | F |
To win the fort of unbelieving man | G |
Found entry there where ire undid the gate | F |
And in his bosom unperceived ran | G |
It filled his heart with malice strife and | H |
It made him rage blaspheme swear curse and ban | G |
Invisible it still attends him near | I |
And thus each minute whispereth in his ear | J |
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XIX | K |
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What shall Rinaldo match thee dares he tell | L |
Those idle names of his vain pedigree | B |
Then let him say if thee he would excel | L |
What lands what realms his tributaries be | B |
If his forefathers in the graves that dwell | L |
Were honored like thine that live let | M |
Oh how dares one so mean aspire so high | C |
Born in that servile country Italy | B |
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XX | K |
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Now if he win or if he lose the day | N |
Yet is his praise and glory hence derived | O |
For that the world will to his credit say | N |
Lo this is he that with Gernando strived | O |
The charge some deal thee haply honor may | N |
That Dudon had while here he lived | O |
But laid on him he would the office shame | P |
Let it suffice he durst the same | P |
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XXI | N |
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If when this breath from man's frail body flies | N |
The take keep or the things done here | J |
Oh how looks Dudon from the glorious skies | N |
What wrath what in his face appear | I |
On this proud youngling while he bends his eyes | N |
Marking how high he doth his feathers rear | I |
his rash attempt how soon he dare | Q |
Though but a boy with his great worth compare | Q |
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XXII | N |
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He dares not only but he strives and proves | N |
Where chastisement were fit there wins he praise | N |
One counsels him his speech him forward moves | N |
Another fool approveth all he says | N |
If Godfrey favor him more than behoves | N |
Why then he wrongeth thee an hundred ways | N |
Nor let thy so far disgraced be | B |
Now what thou art and canst let Godfrey | B |
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XXIII | N |
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With such false words the kindled fire began | G |
To every vein his poisoned heart to reach | R |
It swelled his scornful heart and forth it ran | G |
At his proud looks and too audacious speech | R |
All that he blameworthy in the man | G |
To his disgrace that would be each where preach | R |
He termed him proud and vain his worth in fight | O |
He called fool hardise rashness madness right | O |
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XXIV | C |
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All that in him was rare or excellent | O |
All that was all that was princely found | O |
With such sharp words as malice could invent | O |
He blamed such power has wicked tongue to wound | O |
The youth for everywhere those rumors went | O |
Of these reproaches sometimes the sound | O |
Nor did for that his tongue the fault amend | O |
Until it brought him to his woeful end | O |
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XXV | C |
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The cursed fiend that set his tongue at large | S |
Still bred more fancies in his idle brain | T |
His heart with slanders new did overcharge | S |
And soothed him still in his vein | T |
Amid the camp a place was broad and large | S |
Where one fair regiment might easily train | T |
And there in tilt and harmless tournament | O |
Their days of the youths and gallants spent | O |
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XXVI | C |
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There as his fortune would it should betide | O |
Amid the press Gernando gan retire | U |
To vomit out his venom unespied | O |
Wherewith foul envy did his heart inspire | U |
Rinaldo him as he stood beside | O |
And as he could not bridle wrath and ire | U |
'Thou liest ' cried he loud and with that word | O |
About his head he tossed his flaming sword | O |
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XXVII | C |
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Thunder his voice and lightning seemed his brand | O |
So fell his look and furious was his cheer | I |
Gernando trembled for he at hand | O |
Pale death and neither nor near | I |
Yet for the soldiers all to witness stand | O |
He made proud sign as though he naught did | O |
But bravely drew his little helping blade | O |
And valiant show of strong resistance made | O |
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XXVIII | C |
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With that a thousand blades of burnished steel | V |
Glistered on heaps like flames of fire in | W |
Hundreds that not yet the quarrel weel | V |
Ran thither some to gaze and some to fight | O |
The empty air a sound did | O |
Of murmurs low and outcries loud on height | O |
Like rolling waves and Boreas' blasts | N |
When roaring seas against the rocks he casts | N |
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XXIX | N |
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But not for this the wronged warrior stayed | O |
His just displeasure and incensed ire | U |
He cared not what the vulgar did or said | O |
To vengeance did his courage fierce aspire | U |
Among the thickest weapons way he made | O |
His thundering sword made all on heaps retire | U |
So that of near a thousand stayed not one | X |
But Prince Gernando bore the brunt | O |
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XXX | N |
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His hand too quick to execute his wrath | Y |
Performed all as his eye and heart | O |
At head and breast oft times he strucken hath | Y |
Now at the right now at the other part | O |
On every side thus did he harm and scath | Y |
And oft beguile his with nimble art | O |
That no defence the prince of wounds acquits | N |
Where least he or there most he hits | N |
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XXXI | N |
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Nor be till in Gernando's breast | O |
He sheathed once or twice his furious blade | O |
Down fell the hapless prince with death oppressed | O |
A double way to his weak was made | O |
His bloody sword the victor wiped and dressed | O |
Nor longer by the slaughtered body stayed | O |
But sped him thence and soon appeased hath | Y |
His his ire his rancor and his wrath | Y |
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XXXII | N |
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Called by the tumult Godfrey drew him near | I |
And there beheld a sad and rueful | V |
The signs of death upon his face appear | I |
With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight | O |
Sighs and complaints on each side might he | B |
Made for the sudden death of that great knight | O |
Amazed he asked who durst and did so much | Z |
For yet he not whom the fault would | O |
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