The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGG GEEGEE HEEGIAEE GJKLGEEGEA EHAMGGN OPG GEAAQQR| Earth was not nor globes of attraction | A |
| The will of the Immortal expanded | B |
| Or contracted his all flexible senses | C |
| Death was not but eternal life sprung | D |
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| The sound of a trumpet the heavens | E |
| Awoke vast clouds of blood roll'd | F |
| Round the dim rocks of Urizen so nam'd | G |
| That solitary one in Immensity | G |
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| Shrill the trumpet myriads of Eternity | G |
| Muster around the bleak desarts | E |
| Now fill'd with clouds darkness waters | E |
| That roll'd perplex'd labring utter'd | G |
| Words articulate bursting in thunders | E |
| That roll'd on the tops of his mountains | E |
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| From the depths of dark solitude From | H |
| The eternal abode in my holiness | E |
| Hidden set apart in my stern counsels | E |
| Reserv'd for the days of futurity | G |
| I have sought for a joy without pain | I |
| For a solid without fluctuation | A |
| Why will you die O Eternals | E |
| Why live in unquenchable burnings | E |
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| First I fought with the fire consum'd | G |
| Inwards into a deep world within | J |
| A void immense wild dark deep | K |
| Where nothing was Natures wide womb | L |
| And self balanc'd stretch'd o'er the void | G |
| I alone even I the winds merciless | E |
| Bound but condensing in torrents | E |
| They fall fall strong I repell'd | G |
| The vast waves arose on the waters | E |
| A wide world of solid obstruction | A |
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| Here alone I in books formd of metals | E |
| Have written the secrets of wisdom | H |
| The secrets of dark contemplation | A |
| By fightings and conflicts dire | M |
| With terrible monsters Sin bred | G |
| Which the bosoms of all inhabit | G |
| Seven deadly Sins of the soul | N |
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| Lo I unfold my darkness and on | O |
| This rock place with strong hand the Book | P |
| Of eternal brass written in my solitude | G |
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| Laws of peace of love of unity | G |
| Of pity compassion forgiveness | E |
| Let each chuse one habitation | A |
| His ancient infinite mansion | A |
| One command one joy one desire | Q |
| One curse one weight one measure | Q |
| One King one God one Law | R |
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