The Book Of Urizen: Chapter V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKGL JM MNOGMM PNMQRGS CGTU CSMGGMMMMUGVGGMMGGGG C MGGGMMWG MMUG MGMM PMP GMGGG| In terrors Los shrunk from his task | A |
| His great hammer fell from his hand | B |
| His fires beheld and sickening | C |
| Hid their strong limbs in smoke | D |
| For with noises ruinous loud | E |
| With hurtlings clashings groans | F |
| The Immortal endur'd his chains | G |
| Tho' bound in a deadly sleep | H |
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| All the myriads of Eternity | I |
| All the wisdom joy of life | J |
| Roll like a sea around him | K |
| Except what his little orbs | G |
| Of sight by degrees unfold | L |
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| And now his eternal life | J |
| Like a dream was obliterated | M |
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| Shudd'ring the Eternal Prophet smote | M |
| With a stroke from his north to south region | N |
| The bellows hammer are silent now | O |
| A nerveless silence his prophetic voice | G |
| Siez'd a cold solitude dark void | M |
| The Eternal Prophet Urizen clos'd | M |
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| Ages on ages rolld over them | P |
| Cut off from life light frozen | N |
| Into horrible forms of deformity | M |
| Los suffer'd his fires to decay | Q |
| Then he look'd back with anxious desire | R |
| But the space undivided by existence | G |
| Struck horror into his soul | S |
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| Los wept obscur'd with mourning | C |
| His bosom earthquak'd with sighs | G |
| He saw Urizen deadly black | T |
| In his chains bound Pity began | U |
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| In anguish dividing dividing | C |
| For pity divides the soul | S |
| In pangs eternity on eternity | M |
| Life in cataracts pourd down his cliffs | G |
| The void shrunk the lymph into Nerves | G |
| Wand'ring wide on the bosom of night | M |
| And left a round globe of blood | M |
| Trembling upon the Void | M |
| Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided | M |
| Before the death image of Urizen | U |
| For in changeable clouds and darkness | G |
| In a winterly night beneath | V |
| The Abyss of Los stretch'd immense | G |
| And now seen now obscur'd to the eyes | G |
| Of Eternals the visions remote | M |
| Of the dark seperation appear'd | M |
| As glasses discover Worlds | G |
| In the endless Abyss of space | G |
| So the expanding eyes of Immortals | G |
| Beheld the dark visions of Los | G |
| And the globe of life blood trembling | C |
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| The globe of life blood trembled | M |
| Branching out into roots | G |
| Fib'rous writhing upon the winds | G |
| Fibres of blood milk and tears | G |
| In pangs eternity on eternity | M |
| At length in tears cries imbodied | M |
| A female form trembling and pale | W |
| Waves before his deathy face | G |
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| All Eternity shudderd at sight | M |
| Of the first female now separate | M |
| Pale as a cloud of snow | U |
| Waving before the face of Los | G |
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| Wonder awe fear astonishment | M |
| Petrify the eternal myriads | G |
| At the first female form now separate | M |
| They call'd her Pity and fled | M |
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| Spread a Tent with strong curtains around them | P |
| Let cords stakes bind in the Void | M |
| That Eternals may no more behold them | P |
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| They began to weave curtains of darkness | G |
| They erected large pillars round the Void | M |
| With golden hooks fastend in the pillars | G |
| With infinite labour the Eternals | G |
| A woof wove and called it Science | G |
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