Poet William Blake

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

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFG HDDDDCHE DEIJ EEKLDDED EDME EEE LHLLDELD HLNE E

Then the Inhabitants of those CitiesA
Felt their Nerves change into MarrowB
And hardening Bones beganC
In swift diseases and tormentsD
In throbbings shootings grindingsD
Thro' all the coasts till weaken'dE
The Senses inward rush'd shrinkingF
Beneath the dark net of infectionG
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Till the shrunken eyes clouded overH
Discernd not the woven hipocrisyD
But the streaky slime in their heavensD
Brought together by narrowing perceptionsD
Appeard transparent air for their eyesD
Grew small like the eyes of a manC
And in reptile forms shrinking togetherH
Of seven feet stature they remaindE
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Six days they shrunk up from existenceD
And on the seventh day they restedE
And they bless'd the seventh day in sick hopeI
And forgot their eternal lifeJ
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And their thirty cities dividedE
In form of a human heartE
No more could they rise at willK
In the infinite void but bound downL
To earth by their narrowing perceptionsD
They lived a period of yearsD
Then left a noisom bodyE
To the jaws of devouring darknessD
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And their children wept builtE
Tombs in the desolate placesD
And form'd laws of prudence and call'd themM
The eternal laws of GodE
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And the thirty cities remaindE
Surrounded by salt floods now call'dE
Africa its name was then EgyptE
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The remaining sons of UrizenL
Beheld their brethren shrink togetherH
Beneath the Net of UrizenL
Perswasion was in vainL
For the ears of the inhabitantsD
Were wither'd deafen'd coldE
And their eyes could not discernL
Their brethren of other citiesD
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So Fuzon call'd all togetherH
The remaining children of UrizenL
And they left the pendulous earthN
They called it Egypt left itE
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And the salt ocean rolled englob'dE

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