Mad Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE BFBFBBCB BGBGBBHHThe wild winds weep | A |
And the night is a cold | B |
Come hither Sleep | A |
And my griefs infold | B |
But lo the morning peeps | C |
Over the eastern steeps | C |
And the rustling birds of dawn | D |
The earth do scorn | E |
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Lo to the vault | B |
Of paved heaven | F |
With sorrow fraught | B |
My notes are driven | F |
They strike the ear of night | B |
Make weep the eyes of day | B |
They make mad the roaring winds | C |
And with tempests play | B |
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Like a fiend in a cloud | B |
With howling woe | G |
After night I do crowd | B |
And with night will go | G |
I turn my back to the east | B |
From whence comforts have increas'd | B |
For light doth seize my brain | H |
With frantic pain | H |
William Blake
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