Earth's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB BCBBC CBDDB EBBDF GHGGHEarth raised up her head | A |
From the darkness dread amp drear | B |
Her light fled | A |
Stony dread | A |
And her locks cover'd with grey despair | B |
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Prison'd on watery shore | B |
Starry Jealousy does keep my den | C |
Cold and hoar | B |
Weeping o'er | 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 |
Chain'd 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 ploughman 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 | H |
William Blake
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