Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - Part 07 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBCAA A DEDEDEFG A AHAHAHGG A GIGIGIJ D GGGGGGGG J KGLGMGGG D GNGNGNOO N GGGGGGMM N HGHGHGGG I NLNKNMGG I GHGHGHG I PGQGQGNN I HGHGHGGG I NGNGNGNN| LXXXV | A |
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| 'Or else my tender bosom opened wide | B |
| And heart though pierced with his cruel blade | C |
| The bloody weapon in my wounded side | B |
| Might cure the wound which love before had made | C |
| Then should my soul in rest and quiet slide | B |
| Down to the valleys of the Elysian shade | C |
| And my mishap the knight perchance would move | A |
| To shed some tears upon his murdered love | A |
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| LXXXVI | A |
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| 'Alas impossible are all these things | D |
| Such wishes vain afflict my woeful sprite | E |
| Why yield I thus to plaints and sorrowings | D |
| As if all hope and help were perished quite | E |
| My heart dares much it soars with Cupid's wings | D |
| Why use I not for once these armors bright | E |
| I may sustain awhile this shield aloft | F |
| Though I be tender feeble weak and soft | G |
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| LXXXVII | A |
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| 'Love strong bold mighty never tired love | A |
| Supplieth force to all his servants true | H |
| The fearful stags he doth to battle move | A |
| Till each his horns in others' blood imbrue | H |
| Yet mean not I the haps of war to prove | A |
| A stratagem I have devised new | H |
| Clorinda like in this fair harness dight | G |
| I will escape out of the town this night | G |
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| LXXXVIII | A |
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| 'I know the men that have the gate to ward | G |
| If she command are not her will deny | I |
| In what sort else could I beguile the guard | G |
| This way is only left this will I try | I |
| O gentle love in this adventure hard | G |
| Thine handmaid guide assist and fortify | I |
| The time the hour now fitteth best the thing | J |
| While stout Clorinda talketh with the king ' | - |
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| LXXXIX | D |
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| Resolved thus without delay she went | G |
| As her strong passion did her rashly guide | G |
| And those bright arms down from the rafter hent | G |
| Within her closet did she closely hide | G |
| That might she do unseen for she had sent | G |
| The rest on sleeveless errands from her side | G |
| And night her stealths brought to their wished end | G |
| Night patroness of thieves and lovers' friend | G |
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| XC | J |
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| Some sparkling fires on heaven's bright visage shone | K |
| His azure robe the orient blueness lost | G |
| When she whose wit and reason both were gone | L |
| Called for a squire she loved and trusted most | G |
| To whom and to a maid a faithful one | M |
| Part of her will she told how that in post | G |
| She would depart from Juda's king and feigned | G |
| That other cause her sudden flight constrained | G |
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| XCI | D |
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| The trusty squire provided needments meet | G |
| As for their journey fitting most should be | N |
| Meanwhile her vesture pendant to her feet | G |
| Erminia doft as erst determined she | N |
| Stripped to her petticoat the virgin sweet | G |
| So slender was that wonder was to see | N |
| Her handmaid ready at her mistress' will | O |
| To arm her helped though simple were her skill | O |
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| XCII | N |
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| The rugged steel oppressed and offended | G |
| Her dainty neck and locks of shining gold | G |
| Her tender arm so feeble was it bended | G |
| When that huge target it presumed to hold | G |
| The burnished steel bright rays far off extended | G |
| She feigned courage and appeared bold | G |
| Fast by her side unseen smiled Venus' son | M |
| As erst he laughed when Alcides spun | M |
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| XCIII | N |
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| Oh with what labor did her shoulders bear | H |
| That heavy burthen and how slow she went | G |
| Her maid to see that all the coasts were clear | H |
| Before her mistress through the streets was sent | G |
| Love gave her courage love exiled fear | H |
| Love to her tired limbs new vigor lent | G |
| Till she approached where the squire abode | G |
| There took they horse forthwith and forward rode | G |
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| XCIV | I |
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| Disguised they went and by unused ways | N |
| And secret paths they strove unseen to gone | L |
| Until the watch they meet which sore affrays | N |
| Their soldiers new when swords and weapons shone | K |
| Yet none to stop their journey once essays | N |
| But place and passage yielded every one | M |
| For that while armor and that helmet bright | G |
| Were known and feared in the darkest night | G |
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| XCV | I |
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| Erminia though some deal she were dismayed | G |
| Yet went she on and goodly countenance bore | H |
| She doubted lest her purpose were bewrayed | G |
| Her too much boldness she repented sore | H |
| But now the gate her fear and passage stayed | G |
| The heedless porter she beguiled therefore | H |
| 'I am Clorinda ope the gate ' she cried | G |
| 'Where as the king commands this late I ride ' | - |
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| XCVI | I |
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| Her woman's voice and terms all framed been | P |
| Most like the speeches of the princess stout | G |
| Who would have thought on horseback to have seen | Q |
| That feeble damsel armed round about | G |
| The porter her obeyed and she between | Q |
| Her trusty squire and maiden sallied out | G |
| And through the secret dales they silent pass | N |
| Where danger least least fear least peril was | N |
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| XCVII | I |
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| But when these fair adventurers entered were | H |
| Deep in a vale Erminia stayed her haste | G |
| To be recalled she had no cause to fear | H |
| This foremost hazard had she trimly past | G |
| But dangers new tofore unseen appear | H |
| New perils she descried new doubts she cast | G |
| The way that her desire to quiet brought | G |
| More difficult now seemed than erst she thought | G |
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| XCVIII | I |
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| Armed to ride among her angry foes | N |
| She now perceived it were great oversight | G |
| Yet would she not she thought herself disclose | N |
| Until she came before her chosen knight | G |
| To him she purposed to present the rose | N |
| Pure spotless clean untouched of mortal wight | G |
| She stayed therefore and in her thoughts more wise | N |
| She called her squire whom thus she gan advise | N |
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