Songs Of Innocence: Introduction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FDED GHGI EDJD| Piping down the valleys wild | A |
| Piping songs of pleasant glee | B |
| On a cloud I saw a child | A |
| And he laughing said to me | B |
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| Pipe a song about a Lamb | C |
| So I piped with merry chear | D |
| Piper pipe that song again | E |
| So I piped he wept to hear | D |
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| Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe | F |
| Sing thy songs of happy chear | D |
| So I sung the same again | E |
| While he wept with joy to hear | D |
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| Piper sit thee down and write | G |
| In a book that all may read | H |
| So he vanished from my sight | G |
| And I pluck'd a hollow reed | I |
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| And I made a rural pen | E |
| And I stained the water clear | D |
| And I wrote my happy songs | J |
| Every child may joy to hear | D |
William Blake
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