Preludium To Europe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIAJ KLBM NBGO DPBQ RSTU VWB XY| The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc | A |
| Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon | B |
| And thus her voice arose | C |
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| 'O mother Enitharmon wilt thou bring forth other sons | D |
| To cause my name to vanish that my place may not be found | E |
| For I am faint with travail | F |
| Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder | G |
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| My roots are brandish'd in the heavens my fruits in earth beneath | H |
| Surge foam and labour into life first born and first consum'd | I |
| Consumed and consuming | A |
| Then why shouldst thou accursed mother bring me into life | J |
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| I wrap my turban of thick clouds around my lab'ring head | K |
| And fold the sheety waters as a mantle round my limbs | L |
| Yet the red sun and moon | B |
| And all the overflowing stars rain down prolific pains | M |
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| Unwilling I look up to heaven unwilling count the stars | N |
| Sitting in fathomless abyss of my immortal shrine | B |
| I seize their burning power | G |
| And bring forth howling terrors all devouring fiery kings | O |
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| Devouring and devoured roaming on dark and desolate mountains | D |
| In forests of eternal death shrieking in hollow trees | P |
| Ah mother Enitharmon | B |
| Stamp not with solid form this vig'rous progeny of fires | Q |
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| I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames | R |
| And thou dost stamp them with a signet then they roam abroad | S |
| And leave me void as death | T |
| Ah I am drown'd in shady woe and visionary joy | U |
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| And who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band | V |
| To compass it with swaddling bands and who shall cherish it | W |
| With milk and honey | B |
| I see it smile and I roll inward and my voice is past ' | - |
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| She ceased and roll'd her shady clouds | X |
| Into the secret place | Y |
William Blake
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