Preludium To America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEGGHGIJAGGKGL GMNOP Q AARGPSTUVWThe shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc | A |
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode | B |
His food she brought in iron baskets his drink in cups of iron | C |
Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood | D |
A quiver with its burning stores a bow like that of night | E |
When pestilence is shot from heaven no other arms she need | F |
Invulnerable though naked save where clouds roll round her loins | G |
Their awful folds in the dark air silent she stood as night | E |
For never from her iron tongue could voice or sound arise | G |
But dumb till that dread day when Orc assay'd his fierce embrace | G |
'Dark Virgin ' said the hairy youth 'thy father stern abhorr'd | H |
Rivets my tenfold chains while still on high my spirit soars | G |
Sometimes an Eagle screaming in the sky sometimes a Lion | I |
Stalking upon the mountains and sometimes a Whale I lash | J |
The raging fathomless abyss anon a Serpent folding | A |
Around the pillars of Urthona and round thy dark limbs | G |
On the Canadian wilds I fold feeble my spirit folds | G |
For chain'd beneath I rend these caverns when thou bringest food | K |
I howl my joy and my red eyes seek to behold thy face | G |
In vain these clouds roll to and fro and hide thee from my sight ' | L |
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Silent as despairing love and strong as jealousy | G |
The hairy shoulders rend the links free are the wrists of fire | M |
Round the terrific loins he seiz'd the panting struggling womb | N |
It joy'd she put aside her clouds and smiled her first born smile | O |
As when a black cloud shews its lightnings to the silent deep | P |
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Soon as she saw the terrible boy then burst the virgin cry | Q |
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'I know thee I have found thee and I will not let thee go | A |
Thou art the image of God who dwells in darkness of Africa | A |
And thou art fall'n to give me life in regions of dark death | R |
On my American plains I feel the struggling afflictions | G |
Endur'd by roots that writhe their arms into the nether deep | P |
I see a Serpent in Canada who courts me to his love | S |
In Mexico an Eagle and a Lion in Peru | T |
I see a Whale in the south sea drinking my soul away | U |
O what limb rending pains I feel thy fire and my frost | V |
Mingle in howling pains in furrows by thy lightnings rent | W |
This is eternal death and this the torment long foretold ' | - |
William Blake
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