The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC CD EC CF EGC H IIJC CKHDC LEDCCEHC MNDEO PE HQC QJQQ EHQQHCRES HQTCDCCES QCQCCQTES HDCHQQS DQTES DQHQDQES QUVTCWES| a | A |
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| Los smitten with astonishment | B |
| Frightend at the hurtling bones | C |
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| And at the surging sulphureous | C |
| Perturbed Immortal mad raging | D |
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| In whirlwinds pitch nitre | E |
| Round the furious limbs of Los | C |
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| And Los formed nets gins | C |
| And threw the nets round about | F |
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| He watch'd in shuddring fear | E |
| The dark changes bound every change | G |
| With rivets of iron brass | C |
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| And these were the changes of Urizen | H |
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| Ages on ages roll'd over him | I |
| In stony sleep ages roll'd over him | I |
| Like a dark waste stretching chang'able | J |
| By earthquakes riv'n belching sullen fires | C |
| On ages roll'd ages in ghastly | - |
| Sick torment around him in whirlwinds | C |
| Of darkness the eternal Prophet howl'd | K |
| Beating still on his rivets of iron | H |
| Pouring sodor of iron dividing | D |
| The horrible night into watches | C |
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| And Urizen so his eternal name | L |
| His prolific delight obscurd more more | E |
| In dark secresy hiding in surgeing | D |
| Sulphureous fluid his phantasies | C |
| The Eternal Prophet heavd the dark bellows | C |
| And turn'd restless the tongs and the hammer | E |
| Incessant beat forging chains new new | H |
| Numb'ring with links hours days years | C |
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| The eternal mind bounded began to roll | M |
| Eddies of wrath ceaseless round round | N |
| And the sulphureous foam surgeing thick | D |
| Settled a lake bright shining clear | E |
| White as the snow on the mountains cold | O |
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| Forgetfulness dumbness necessity | - |
| In chains of the mind locked up | P |
| Like fetters of ice shrinking together | E |
| Disorganiz'd rent from Eternity | - |
| Los beat on his fetters of iron | H |
| And heated his furnaces pour'd | Q |
| Iron sodor and sodor of brass | C |
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| Restless turnd the immortal inchain'd | Q |
| Heaving dolorous anguish'd unbearable | J |
| Till a roof shaggy wild inclos'd | Q |
| In an orb his fountain of thought | Q |
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| In a horrible dreamful slumber | E |
| Like the linked infernal chain | H |
| A vast Spine writh'd in torment | Q |
| Upon the winds shooting pain'd | Q |
| Ribs like a bending cavern | H |
| And bones of solidness froze | C |
| Over all his nerves of joy | R |
| And a first Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| From the caverns of his jointed Spine | H |
| Down sunk with fright a red | Q |
| Round globe hot burning deep | T |
| Deep down into the Abyss | C |
| Panting Conglobing Trembling | D |
| Shooting out ten thousand branches | C |
| Around his solid bones | C |
| And a second Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| In harrowing fear rolling round | Q |
| His nervous brain shot branches | C |
| Round the branches of his heart | Q |
| On high into two little orbs | C |
| And fixed in two little caves | C |
| Hiding carefully from the wind | Q |
| His Eyes beheld the deep | T |
| And a third Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| The pangs of hope began | H |
| In heavy pain striving struggling | D |
| Two Ears in close volutions | C |
| From beneath his orbs of vision | H |
| Shot spiring out and petrified | Q |
| As they grew And a fourth Age passed | Q |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| In ghastly torment sick | D |
| Hanging upon the wind | Q |
| Two Nostrils bent down to the deep | T |
| And a fifth Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| In ghastly torment sick | D |
| Within his ribs bloated round | Q |
| A craving Hungry Cavern | H |
| Thence arose his channeld Throat | Q |
| And like a red flame a Tongue | D |
| Of thirst of hunger appeard | Q |
| And a sixth Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
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| Enraged stifled with torment | Q |
| He threw his right Arm to the north | U |
| His left Arm to the south | V |
| Shooting out in anguish deep | T |
| And his Feet stampd the nether Abyss | C |
| In trembling howling dismay | W |
| And a seventh Age passed over | E |
| And a state of dismal woe | S |
William Blake
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