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 H2TThe voice ended they saw his pale visage | A |
Emerge from the darkness his hand | B |
On the rock of eternity unclasping | C |
The Book of brass Rage siez'd the strong | C |
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Rage fury intense indignation | D |
In cataracts of fire blood gall | E |
In whirlwinds of sulphurous smoke | C |
And enormous forms of energy | F |
All the seven deadly sins of the soul | G |
In living creations appear'd | H |
In the flames of eternal fury | F |
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Sund'ring dark'ning thund'ring | C |
Rent away with a terrible crash | I |
Eternity roll'd wide apart | J |
Wide asunder rolling | C |
Mountainous all around | K |
Departing departing departing | C |
Leaving ruinous fragments of life | L |
Hanging frowning cliffs all between | M |
An ocean of voidness unfathomable | N |
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The roaring fires ran o'er the heav'ns | O |
In whirlwinds cataracts of blood | P |
And o'er the dark desarts of Urizen | M |
Fires pour thro' the void on all sides | O |
On Urizens self begotten armies | O |
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But no light from the fires all was darkness | O |
In the flames of Eternal fury | F |
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In fierce anguish quenchless flames | O |
To the desarts and rocks He ran raging | C |
To hide but He could not combining | C |
He dug mountains hills in vast strength | Q |
He piled them in incessant labour | R |
In howlings pangs fierce madness | O |
Long periods in burning fires labouring | C |
Till hoary and age broke and aged | S |
In despair and the shadows of death | T |
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And a roof vast petrific around | K |
On all sides He fram'd like a womb | U |
Where thousands of rivers in veins | O |
Of blood pour down the mountains to cool | V |
The eternal fires beating without | W |
From Eternals like a black globe | X |
View'd by sons of Eternity standing | C |
On the shore of the infinite ocean | M |
Like a human heart strugling beating | C |
The vast world of Urizen appear'd | H |
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And Los round the dark globe of Urizen | M |
Kept watch for Eternals to confine | M |
The obscure separation alone | M |
For Eternity stood wide apart | J |
As the stars are apart from the earth | Y |
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Los wept howling around the dark Demon | M |
And cursing his lot for in anguish | Z |
Urizen was rent from his side | A2 |
And a fathomless void for his feet | B2 |
And intense fires for his dwelling | C |
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But Urizen laid in a stony sleep | C2 |
Unorganiz'd rent from Eternity | F |
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The Eternals said What is this Death | T |
Urizen is a clod of clay | D2 |
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Los howld in a dismal stupor | E2 |
Groaning gnashing groaning | C |
Till the wrenching apart was healed | F2 |
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But the wrenching of Urizen heal'd not | G2 |
Cold featureless flesh or clay | D2 |
Rifted with direful changes | O |
He lay in a dreamless night | H2 |
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Till Los rouz'd his fires affrighted | H2 |
At the formless unmeasurable death | T |
William Blake
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