Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 03 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBCDD E CFCGCHII E ECEJECKL E AAAAAAA E MNMNONPP E QRQSQ AA A TKUCUKV P PRPRPRWO P MJMQXQY P OBZBZBAA P AOAOAOA2A2 E AIAB2AB2KO E C2AC2AC2AD2D2 E BE2TABE2CC E DF2DF2DF2G2G2 E TH2I2J2I2H2K2K2| XXXIII | A |
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| Arnoldo minion of the Prince thus slain | B |
| Augments the fault in telling it and saith | C |
| This Prince murdered for a quarrel vain | B |
| By young Rinaldo in his desperate wrath | C |
| And with that sword that should Christ's law maintain | B |
| One of Christ's champions bold he killed hath | C |
| And this he did in such a place and hour | D |
| As if he scorned your rule despised your power | D |
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| XXXIV | E |
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| And further adds that he deserved death | C |
| By law and law should inviolate | F |
| That none offence could greater be uneath | C |
| And yet the place the fault did aggravate | G |
| If he escapes that mischief would take breath | C |
| And flourish bold in spite of rule and | H |
| And that Gernando's friends would venge the wrong | I |
| Although to justice that did first belong | I |
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| XXXV | E |
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| And by that means should discord and strife | E |
| Raise mutinies and what therefore ensueth | C |
| Lastly he praised the dead and still had rife | E |
| All words he could vengeance move or rut | J |
| Against him Tancred argued for life | E |
| With honest reasons to excuse the youth | C |
| The Duke all but with such sober cheer | K |
| As banished hope and still increased | L |
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| XXXVI | E |
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| 'Great Prince ' quoth Tancred 'set before thine eyes | A |
| Rinaldo's worth and courage what it is | A |
| How much our hope of conquest in him lies | A |
| Regard that princely house and race of his | A |
| He that correcteth every fault he spies | A |
| And judgeth all alike doth all amiss | A |
| For faults you are greater or less | A |
| As is the person's that doth transgress ' | - |
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| XXXVII | E |
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| Godfredo answered him 'If high and low | M |
| Of sovereign power alike should the stroke | N |
| Then Tancred ill you counsel us I trow | M |
| If lords should no law as erst you spoke | N |
| How vile and base our empire were you | O |
| If none but slaves and peasants bear the yoke | N |
| Weak is the sceptre and the power is small | P |
| That such provisos bring annexed withal | P |
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| XXXVIII | E |
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| 'But mine was freely given ere 'twas sought | Q |
| Nor that it lessened be I now consent | R |
| Right well I both when and where I ought | Q |
| To give condign reward and punishment | S |
| Since you are all in like subjection brought | Q |
| Both high and low obey and be content ' | - |
| This Tancredi stayed his words | A |
| Such weight the sayings have of kings and lords | A |
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| XXXIX | A |
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| Old Raymond praised his speech for old men | T |
| They ever seem when most severe | K |
| ' 'Tis best ' quoth he 'to make these great ones shrink | U |
| The people love him whom the | C |
| There must the rule to all disorders sink | U |
| Where pardons more than punishments appear | K |
| For feeble is each kingdom frail and weak | V |
| Unless his basis be this I speak ' | - |
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| XL | P |
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| These words Tancredi and pondered well | P |
| And by them how Godfrey's were bent | R |
| Nor list he longer with these old men dwell | P |
| But turned his horse and to Rinaldo went | R |
| Who when his foe death wounded fell | P |
| Withdrew him softly to his gorgeous tent | R |
| There Tancred found him and at large declared | W |
| The words and speeches sharp which late you | O |
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| XLI | P |
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| And said 'Although I the outward show | M |
| Is not witness of the secret | J |
| For that some men so subtle are I trow | M |
| That what they purpose most appeareth naught | Q |
| Yet dare I say Godfredo means I | X |
| Such hath his looks and speeches wrought | Q |
| You shall first prisoner be and then be tried | Y |
| As he shall deem it and law provide ' | - |
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| XLII | P |
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| With that a smile well might you | O |
| Rinaldo cast with scorn and high disdain | B |
| 'Let them in fetters plead their cause ' quoth he | Z |
| 'That are base peasants born of servile stain | B |
| I was free born I live and will die free | Z |
| Before these feet be fettered in a chain | B |
| These hands were made to shake sharp spears and swords | A |
| Not to be tied in gyves and twisted cords | A |
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| XLIII | P |
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| 'If my service reap this recompense | A |
| To be clapt up in close and secret mew | O |
| And as a thief be after dragged from thence | A |
| To suffer punishment as law finds due | O |
| Let Godfrey come or send I will not hence | A |
| Until we who shall this bargain rue | O |
| That of our tragedy the late done fact | A2 |
| May be the first and this the second act | A2 |
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| XLIV | E |
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| 'Give me mine arms ' he cried his squire them brings | A |
| And clad his head and dressed in iron strong | I |
| About his neck his silver shield he flings | A |
| Down by his side a cutting sword there hung | B2 |
| Among this earth's brave lords and mighty kings | A |
| Was none so stout so fierce so fair so young | B2 |
| God Mars he seemed descending from his sphere | K |
| Or one whose looks could make great Mars to | O |
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| XLV | E |
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| Tancredi labored with some speech | C2 |
| His fierce and courage to appease | A |
| 'Young Prince thy valor ' thus he gan to preach | C2 |
| 'Can chastise all that do thee wrong at ease | A |
| I your can your enemies teach | C2 |
| That you can venge you when and where you please | A |
| But God forbid this day you lift your arm | D2 |
| To do this camp and us your friends such harm | D2 |
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| XLVI | E |
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| 'Tell me what will you do why would you stain | B |
| Your hands in our unguilty blood | E2 |
| By wounding Christians will you again | T |
| Pierce Christ whose parts they are and members | A |
| Will you destroy us for your glory vain | B |
| Unstayed as rolling waves in ocean flood | E2 |
| Far be it from you so to prove your strength | C |
| And let your zeal appease your rage at length | C |
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| XLVII | E |
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| 'For God's love stay your heat and just displeasure | D |
| Appease your wrath your courage fierce assuage | F2 |
| a praise is a treasure | D |
| Suffrance an angel's is a monster rage | F2 |
| At least you actions by example measure | D |
| And how I in mine unbridled age | F2 |
| Was wronged yet I would not revengement take | G2 |
| On all this camp for one offender's sake | G2 |
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| XLVIII | E |
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| 'Cilicia conquered I as all men | T |
| And there the glorious cross on high I reared | H2 |
| But Baldwin came and what I got | I2 |
| Bereft me falsely when I least him | J2 |
| He seemed my friend and I discovered not | I2 |
| His secret covetise which since appeared | H2 |
| Yet strive I not to get mine own by fight | K2 |
| Or civil war although perchance I might | K2 |
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