The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFG HDDDDCHE DEIJ EEKLDDED EDME EEE LHLLDELD HLNE EThen the Inhabitants of those Cities | A |
Felt their Nerves change into Marrow | B |
And hardening Bones began | C |
In swift diseases and torments | D |
In throbbings shootings grindings | D |
Thro' all the coasts till weaken'd | E |
The Senses inward rush'd shrinking | F |
Beneath the dark net of infection | G |
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Till the shrunken eyes clouded over | H |
Discernd not the woven hipocrisy | D |
But the streaky slime in their heavens | D |
Brought together by narrowing perceptions | D |
Appeard transparent air for their eyes | D |
Grew small like the eyes of a man | C |
And in reptile forms shrinking together | H |
Of seven feet stature they remaind | E |
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Six days they shrunk up from existence | D |
And on the seventh day they rested | E |
And they bless'd the seventh day in sick hope | I |
And forgot their eternal life | J |
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And their thirty cities divided | E |
In form of a human heart | E |
No more could they rise at will | K |
In the infinite void but bound down | L |
To earth by their narrowing perceptions | D |
They lived a period of years | D |
Then left a noisom body | E |
To the jaws of devouring darkness | D |
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And their children wept built | E |
Tombs in the desolate places | D |
And form'd laws of prudence and call'd them | M |
The eternal laws of God | E |
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And the thirty cities remaind | E |
Surrounded by salt floods now call'd | E |
Africa its name was then Egypt | E |
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The remaining sons of Urizen | L |
Beheld their brethren shrink together | H |
Beneath the Net of Urizen | L |
Perswasion was in vain | L |
For the ears of the inhabitants | D |
Were wither'd deafen'd cold | E |
And their eyes could not discern | L |
Their brethren of other cities | D |
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So Fuzon call'd all together | H |
The remaining children of Urizen | L |
And they left the pendulous earth | N |
They called it Egypt left it | E |
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And the salt ocean rolled englob'd | E |
William Blake
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