Earth's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB BCBBC CBDDB EBBDF GHGG| Earth raised up her head | A |
| From the darkness dread and drear | B |
| Her light fled | A |
| Stony dread | A |
| And her locks covered with grey despair | B |
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| 'Prisoned on watery shore | B |
| Starry jealousy does keep my den | C |
| Cold and hoar | B |
| Weeping o're | B |
| I hear the father of the ancient men | C |
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| 'Selfish father of men | C |
| Cruel jealous selfish fear | B |
| Can delight | D |
| Chained in night | D |
| The virgins of youth and morning bear | B |
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| 'Does spring hide its joy | E |
| When buds and blossoms grow | B |
| Does the sower | B |
| Sow by night | D |
| Or the plowman in darkness plough | F |
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| 'Break this heavy chain | G |
| That does freeze my bones around | H |
| Selfish vain | G |
| Eternal bane | G |
| That free love with bondage bound ' | - |
William Blake
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