The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DECFGHF CIJCKCLMN OPMOO OF OCCQROCST KUOVWXCMCH MMMJY MZA2B2C C2F TD2 E2CF2 G2D2OH2 H2T

The voice ended they saw his pale visageA
Emerge from the darkness his handB
On the rock of eternity unclaspingC
The Book of brass Rage siez'd the strongC
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Rage fury intense indignationD
In cataracts of fire blood gallE
In whirlwinds of sulphurous smokeC
And enormous forms of energyF
All the seven deadly sins of the soulG
In living creations appear'dH
In the flames of eternal furyF
-
Sund'ring dark'ning thund'ringC
Rent away with a terrible crashI
Eternity roll'd wide apartJ
Wide asunder rollingC
Mountainous all aroundK
Departing departing departingC
Leaving ruinous fragments of lifeL
Hanging frowning cliffs all betweenM
An ocean of voidness unfathomableN
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The roaring fires ran o'er the heav'nsO
In whirlwinds cataracts of bloodP
And o'er the dark desarts of UrizenM
Fires pour thro' the void on all sidesO
On Urizens self begotten armiesO
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But no light from the fires all was darknessO
In the flames of Eternal furyF
-
In fierce anguish quenchless flamesO
To the desarts and rocks He ran ragingC
To hide but He could not combiningC
He dug mountains hills in vast strengthQ
He piled them in incessant labourR
In howlings pangs fierce madnessO
Long periods in burning fires labouringC
Till hoary and age broke and agedS
In despair and the shadows of deathT
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And a roof vast petrific aroundK
On all sides He fram'd like a wombU
Where thousands of rivers in veinsO
Of blood pour down the mountains to coolV
The eternal fires beating withoutW
From Eternals like a black globeX
View'd by sons of Eternity standingC
On the shore of the infinite oceanM
Like a human heart strugling beatingC
The vast world of Urizen appear'dH
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And Los round the dark globe of UrizenM
Kept watch for Eternals to confineM
The obscure separation aloneM
For Eternity stood wide apartJ
As the stars are apart from the earthY
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Los wept howling around the dark DemonM
And cursing his lot for in anguishZ
Urizen was rent from his sideA2
And a fathomless void for his feetB2
And intense fires for his dwellingC
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But Urizen laid in a stony sleepC2
Unorganiz'd rent from EternityF
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The Eternals said What is this DeathT
Urizen is a clod of clayD2
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Los howld in a dismal stuporE2
Groaning gnashing groaningC
Till the wrenching apart was healedF2
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But the wrenching of Urizen heal'd notG2
Cold featureless flesh or clayD2
Rifted with direful changesO
He lay in a dreamless nightH2
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Till Los rouz'd his fires affrightedH2
At the formless unmeasurable deathT

William Blake



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