Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABABACC A CDCECEAA A FGFHFGII A JKJKJKL J MNMOMOOO J JOJJJPFQ J RJRJRJSS J TUVUVUJ J QLQLQLWW A BXBLBLKK A JJJJJJBB A BJLJLJBB A BYBYBYBZ A BBBA2BA2BB B BB2BB2BB2BB B BCLCLCBB B LB BL ALXV | A |
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But yet all ways the wily witch could find | B |
Could not Tancredi's heart to loveward move | A |
His sails were filled with another wind | B |
He list no blast of new affection prove | A |
For as one poison doth exclude by kind | B |
Another's force so love excludeth love | A |
These two nor more nor less the dame | C |
Could win the all burnt in her sweet flame | C |
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LXVI | A |
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The princess though her purpose would not frame | C |
As late she hoped and as still she would | D |
Yet for the lords and knights of greatest name | C |
Became her prey as erst you it told | E |
She ere truth revealing time or frame | C |
Bewrayed her act to lead them to some hold | E |
Where chains and band she meant to make them prove | A |
Composed by Vulcan not by gentle love | A |
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LXVII | A |
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The time prefixed at length was come and past | F |
Which Godfrey had set down to lend her aid | G |
When at his feet to earth she cast | F |
'The hour is come my Lord ' she humbly said | H |
'And if the tyrant haply at last | F |
His banished niece hath your assistance prayed | G |
He will in arms to save his kingdom rise | I |
So shall we harder make this enterprise | I |
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LXVIII | A |
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'Before report can bring the tyrant news | J |
Or his espials certify their king | K |
Oh let thy these few champions choose | J |
That to her kingdom should thy handmaid bring | K |
Who except Heaven to aid the right refuse | J |
Recover shall her crown from whence shall spring | K |
Thy profit for betide thee peace or war | L |
Thine all her cities all her subjects are ' | - |
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LXIX | J |
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The captain the damsel fair assured | M |
His word was passed and should not be recanted | N |
And she with sweet and humble grace endured | M |
To let him point those ten which late he granted | O |
But to be one each one fought and procured | M |
No suit no entreaty intercession wanted | O |
There envy each at others' love exceeded | O |
And all importunate made more than needed | O |
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LXX | J |
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She that well the secret of their hearts | J |
And how best to warm them in their blood | O |
Against them threw the cursed poisoned darts | J |
Of and grief at others' | J |
For love she was weak without those arts | J |
And slow for is Cupid's food | P |
For the swift steed runs not so fast | F |
As when some strain some strive him to outgone | Q |
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LXXI | J |
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Her words in such alluring sort she framed | R |
Her looks enticing and her wooing smiles | J |
That every one his fellows' favors blamed | R |
That of their mistress he received erewhiles | J |
This foolish crew of lovers unashamed | R |
Mad with the poison of her secret wiles | J |
Ran forward still in this disordered sort | S |
Nor could Godfredo's bridle rein them short | S |
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LXXII | J |
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He that would each | T |
Withouten partial love of every knight | U |
Although he swelled with shame with grief and ire | V |
To these fellows and these fashions light | U |
Yet since by no advice they would retire | V |
Another way he sought to set them right | U |
'Write all your names ' quoth he 'and whom chance | J |
Of lot to this exploit will first advance ' | - |
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LXXIII | J |
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Their names were writ and in an helmet shaken | Q |
While each did fortune's grace and aid implore | L |
At last they drew them and the foremost taken | Q |
The Earl of Pembroke was Artemidore | L |
Doubtless the county his bread well baken | Q |
Next Gerrard followed then with tresses hoar | L |
Old Wenceslaus that Cupid's rage | W |
Now in his doating and his dying age | W |
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LXXIV | A |
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Oh how contentment in their foreheads shined | B |
Their looks with swelled with secret | X |
These three it seemed success designed | B |
To make the lords of love and beauty's treasure | L |
Their fellows at their hap repined | B |
And with small wait Fortune's leisure | L |
Upon his lips that read the scrolls attending | K |
As if their lives were on his words depending | K |
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LXXV | A |
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Guasco the fourth Ridolpho him succeeds | J |
Then Ulderick whom love list so advance | J |
Lord William of Ronciglion next he reads | J |
Then Eberard and Henry born in France | J |
Rambaldo last whom wicked lust so leads | J |
That he forsook his Saviour with mischance | J |
This wretch the tenth was who was thus deluded | B |
The to their huge grief were all excluded | B |
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LXXVI | A |
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O'ercome with envy wrath and | B |
The blind Fortune curse and all her laws | J |
And mad with love yet out on love they cry | L |
That in his kingdom let her judge their cause | J |
And for man's is such that oft we try | L |
Things most forbidden without stay or pause | J |
In spite of fortune purposed many a knight | B |
To follow fair Armida when 'twas night | B |
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LXXVII | A |
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To follow her by night or else by day | B |
And in her quarrel venture life and limb | Y |
With sighs and tears she gan them softly pray | B |
To keep that promise when the skies were dim | Y |
To this and that knight did she plain and say | B |
What grief she to part withouten him | Y |
Meanwhile the ten had donned their armor best | B |
And taken leave of Godfrey and the | Z |
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LXXVIII | A |
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The duke advised them every one apart | B |
How light how trustless was the Pagan's | B |
And told what policy what what art | B |
Avoids which heedless men betray'th | A2 |
His speeches pierce their ear but not their heart | B |
Love calls it folly whatso saith | A2 |
Thus warned he leaves them to their wanton guide | B |
Who parts that night such haste had she to ride | B |
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LXXIX | B |
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The conqueress departs and with her led | B |
These prisoners whom love would captive keep | B2 |
The hearts of those she left behind her bled | B |
With point of sorrow's arrow pierced deep | B2 |
But when the night her drowsy mantle spread | B |
And filled the earth with silence shade and sleep | B2 |
In secret sort then each forsook his tent | B |
And as blind Cupid led them blind they went | B |
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LXXX | B |
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Eustatio first who scantly could | B |
Till friendly night might hide his haste and shame | C |
He rode in post and let his breast him bear | L |
As his blind fancy would his journey frame | C |
All night he wandered and he not where | L |
But with the morning he espied the dame | C |
That with her guard up from a village rode | B |
Where she and they that night had made abode | B |
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LXXXI | B |
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Thither he galloped fast and drawing near | L |
Rambaldo the knight and loudly cried | B |
'Whence comes young Eustace and what seeks he here ' | - |
'I come ' quoth he 'to serve the Queen Armide | B |
If she me would we all were there | L |
Where my good will and might best be tried ' | - |
'Who ' quoth the other 'choseth thee to prove | A |
This high exploit of hers ' He answered 'Love ' | - |
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