America, A Prophecy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEGGHGIJAGGKGL GMNOP Q AARGPSTUVW| The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc | A |
| When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode | B |
| His food she brought in iron baskets his drink in cups of iron | C |
| Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood | D |
| A quiver with its burning stores a bow like that of night | E |
| When pestilence is shot from heaven no other arms she need | F |
| Invulnerable though naked save where clouds roll round her loins | G |
| Their awful folds in the dark air silent she stood as night | E |
| For never from her iron tongue could voice or sound arise | G |
| But dumb till that dread day when Orc assay'd his fierce embrace | G |
| 'Dark Virgin ' said the hairy youth 'thy father stern abhorr'd | H |
| Rivets my tenfold chains while still on high my spirit soars | G |
| Sometimes an Eagle screaming in the sky sometimes a Lion | I |
| Stalking upon the mountains and sometimes a Whale I lash | J |
| The raging fathomless abyss anon a Serpent folding | A |
| Around the pillars of Urthona and round thy dark limbs | G |
| On the Canadian wilds I fold feeble my spirit folds | G |
| For chain'd beneath I rend these caverns when thou bringest food | K |
| I howl my joy and my red eyes seek to behold thy face | G |
| In vain these clouds roll to and fro and hide thee from my sight ' | L |
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| Silent as despairing love and strong as jealousy | G |
| The hairy shoulders rend the links free are the wrists of fire | M |
| Round the terrific loins he seiz'd the panting struggling womb | N |
| It joy'd she put aside her clouds and smiled her first born smile | O |
| As when a black cloud shews its lightnings to the silent deep | P |
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| Soon as she saw the terrible boy then burst the virgin cry | Q |
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| 'I know thee I have found thee and I will not let thee go | A |
| Thou art the image of God who dwells in darkness of Africa | A |
| And thou art fall'n to give me life in regions of dark death | R |
| On my American plains I feel the struggling afflictions | G |
| Endur'd by roots that writhe their arms into the nether deep | P |
| I see a Serpent in Canada who courts me to his love | S |
| In Mexico an Eagle and a Lion in Peru | T |
| I see a Whale in the south sea drinking my soul away | U |
| O what limb rending pains I feel thy fire and my frost | V |
| Mingle in howling pains in furrows by thy lightnings rent | W |
| This is eternal death and this the torment long foretold ' | - |
William Blake
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