The Book Of Urizen: Chapter I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEE FGFGA HIGFF FJKFF LMFN MOPQRJSML| Lo a shadow of horror is risen | A |
| In Eternity Unknown unprolific | B |
| Self closd all repelling what Demon | A |
| Hath form'd this abominable void | C |
| This soul shudd'ring vacuum Some said | D |
| It is Urizen But unknown abstracted | E |
| Brooding secret the dark power hid | E |
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| Times on times he divided measur'd | F |
| Space by space in his ninefold darkness | G |
| Unseen unknown changes appeard | F |
| In his desolate mountains rifted furious | G |
| By the black winds of perturbation | A |
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| For he strove in battles dire | H |
| In unseen conflictions with shapes | I |
| Bred from his forsaken wilderness | G |
| Of beast bird fish serpent element | F |
| Combustion blast vapour and cloud | F |
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| Dark revolving in silent activity | F |
| Unseen in tormenting passions | J |
| An activity unknown and horrible | K |
| A self contemplating shadow | F |
| In enormous labours occupied | F |
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| But Eternals beheld his vast forests | L |
| Age on ages he lay clos'd unknown | M |
| Brooding shut in the deep all avoid | F |
| The petrific abominable chaos | N |
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| His cold horrors silent dark Urizen | M |
| Prepar'd his ten thousands of thunders | O |
| Rang'd in gloom'd array stretch out across | P |
| The dread world the rolling of wheels | Q |
| As of swelling seas sound in his clouds | R |
| In his hills of stor'd snows in his mountains | J |
| Of hail ice voices of terror | S |
| Are heard like thunders of autumn | M |
| When the cloud blazes over the harvests | L |
William Blake
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