Auguries Of Innocence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKL HHMMNNJJOOJJPJJJQQPP RSJJTUJJJJVVJJWWWWXX XXYYYYPJJJRRZA2HHB2B 2RRYYPPC2A2JJC2A2DDP PJJD2E2F2F2G2G2PPH2H 2I2I2JJJJJJJJJ2J2K2K 2JJJJPPJJJJL2L2To see a world in a grain of sand | A |
And a heaven in a wild flower | B |
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand | A |
And eternity in an hour | B |
A robin redbreast in a cage | C |
Puts all heaven in a rage | C |
A dove house filled with doves and pigeons | D |
Shudders hell through all its regions | D |
A dog starved at his master's gate | E |
Predicts the ruin of the state | E |
A horse misused upon the road | F |
Calls to heaven for human blood | G |
Each outcry of the hunted hare | H |
A fibre from the brain does tear | H |
A skylark wounded in the wing | I |
A cherubim does cease to sing | I |
The game cock clipped and armed for fight | J |
Does the rising sun affright | J |
Every wolf's and lion's howl | K |
Raises from hell a human soul | L |
The wild deer wandering here and there | H |
Keeps the human soul from care | H |
The lamb misused breeds public strife | M |
And yet forgives the butcher's knife | M |
The bat that flits at close of eve | N |
Has left the brain that won't believe | N |
The owl that calls upon the night | J |
Speaks the unbeliever's fright | J |
He who shall hurt the little wren | O |
Shall never be beloved by men | O |
He who the ox to wrath has moved | J |
Shall never be by woman loved | J |
The wanton boy that kills the fly | P |
Shall feel the spider's enmity | J |
He who torments the chafer's sprite | J |
Weaves a bower in endless night | J |
The caterpillar on the leaf | Q |
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief | Q |
Kill not the moth nor butterfly | P |
For the Last Judgment draweth nigh | P |
He who shall train the horse to war | R |
Shall never pass the polar bar | S |
The beggar's dog and widow's cat | J |
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat | J |
The gnat that sings his summer's song | T |
Poison gets from Slander's tongue | U |
The poison of the snake and newt | J |
Is the sweat of Envy's foot | J |
The poison of the honey bee | J |
Is the artist's jealousy | J |
The prince's robes and beggar's rags | V |
Are toadstools on the miser's bags | V |
A truth that's told with bad intent | J |
Beats all the lies you can invent | J |
It is right it should be so | W |
Man was made for joy and woe | W |
And when this we rightly know | W |
Through the world we safely go | W |
Joy and woe are woven fine | X |
A clothing for the soul divine | X |
Under every grief and pine | X |
Runs a joy with silken twine | X |
The babe is more than swaddling bands | Y |
Throughout all these human lands | Y |
Tools were made and born were hands | Y |
Every farmer understands | Y |
Every tear from every eye | P |
Becomes a babe in eternity | J |
This is caught by females bright | J |
And returned to its own delight | J |
The bleat the bark bellow and roar | R |
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore | R |
The babe that weeps the rod beneath | Z |
Writes Revenge in realms of death | A2 |
The beggar's rags fluttering in air | H |
Does to rags the heavens tear | H |
The soldier armed with sword and gun | B2 |
Palsied strikes the summer's sun | B2 |
The poor man's farthing is worth more | R |
Than all the gold on Afric's shore | R |
One mite wrung from the labourer's hands | Y |
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands | Y |
Or if protected from on high | P |
Does that whole nation sell and buy | P |
He who mocks the infant's faith | C2 |
Shall be mocked in age and death | A2 |
He who shall teach the child to doubt | J |
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out | J |
He who respects the infant's faith | C2 |
Triumphs over hell and death | A2 |
The child's toys and the old man's reasons | D |
Are the fruits of the two seasons | D |
The questioner who sits so sly | P |
Shall never know how to reply | P |
He who replies to words of doubt | J |
Doth put the light of knowledge out | J |
The strongest poison ever known | D2 |
Came from Caesar's laurel crown | E2 |
Nought can deform the human race | F2 |
Like to the armour's iron brace | F2 |
When gold and gems adorn the plough | G2 |
To peaceful arts shall Envy bow | G2 |
A riddle or the cricket's cry | P |
Is to doubt a fit reply | P |
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile | H2 |
Make lame philosophy to smile | H2 |
He who doubts from what he sees | I2 |
Will ne'er believe do what you please | I2 |
If the sun and moon should doubt | J |
They'd immediately go out | J |
To be in a passion you good may do | J |
But no good if a passion is in you | J |
The whore and gambler by the state | J |
Licensed build that nation's fate | J |
The harlot's cry from street to street | J |
Shall weave old England's winding sheet | J |
The winner's shout the loser's curse | J2 |
Dance before dead England's hearse | J2 |
Every night and every morn | K2 |
Some to misery are born | K2 |
Every morn and every night | J |
Some are born to sweet delight | J |
Some are born to sweet delight | J |
Some are born to endless night | J |
We are led to believe a lie | P |
When we see not through the eye | P |
Which was born in a night to perish in a night | J |
When the soul slept in beams of light | J |
God appears and God is light | J |
To those poor souls who dwell in night | J |
But does a human form display | L2 |
To those who dwell in realms of day | L2 |
William Blake
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