If It Is True What The Prophets Write Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDD EE FFGG| If it is true what the Prophets write | A |
| That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones | B |
| Shall we for the sake of being polite | A |
| Feed them with the juice of our marrow bones | B |
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| And if Bezaleel and Aholiab drew | C |
| What the finger of God pointed to their view | C |
| Shall we suffer the Roman and Grecian rods | D |
| To compel us to worship them as gods | D |
| - | |
| They stole them from the temple of the Lord | E |
| And worshipp'd them that they might make inspir d art abhorr'd | E |
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| The wood and stone were call'd the holy things | F |
| And their sublime intent given to their kings | F |
| All the atonements of Jehovah spurn'd | G |
| And criminals to sacrifices turn'd | G |
William Blake
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