I See The Four-fold Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGG HIJGFKG| I see the Four fold Man The Humanity in deadly sleep | A |
| And its fallen Emanation the Spectre and its cruel Shadow | B |
| I see the Past Present and Future existing all at once | C |
| Before me O Divine Spirit sustain me on thy wings | D |
| That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose | E |
| For Bacon and Newton sheath'd in dismal steel their terrors hang | F |
| Like iron scourges over Albion reasonings like vast serpents | G |
| Infold around my limbs bruising my minute articulations | G |
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| I turn my eyes to the schools and universities of Europe | H |
| And there behold the Loom of Locke whose Woof rages dire | I |
| Wash'd by the Water wheels of Newton black the cloth | J |
| In heavy wreaths folds over every nation cruel works | G |
| Of many Wheels I view wheel without wheel with cogs tyrannic | F |
| Moving by compulsion each other not as those in Eden which | K |
| Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve in harmony and peace | G |
William Blake
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