The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEF ECGH IHE JHCEK HELMECNO CEKC CPC QEL CECC CCLBut Los saw the Female pitied | A |
He embrac'd her she wept she refus'd | B |
In perverse and cruel delight | C |
She fled from his arms yet he followd | C |
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Eternity shudder'd when they saw | D |
Man begetting his likeness | E |
On his own divided image | F |
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A time passed over the Eternals | E |
Began to erect the tent | C |
When Enitharmon sick | G |
Felt a Worm within her womb | H |
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Yet helpless it lay like a Worm | I |
In the trembling womb | H |
To be moulded into existence | E |
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All day the worm lay on her bosom | J |
All night within her womb | H |
The worm lay till it grew to a serpent | C |
With dolorous hissings poisons | E |
Round Enitharmons loins folding | K |
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Coild within Enitharmons womb | H |
The serpent grew casting its scales | E |
With sharp pangs the hissings began | L |
To change to a grating cry | M |
Many sorrows and dismal throes | E |
Many forms of fish bird beast | C |
Brought forth an Infant form | N |
Where was a worm before | O |
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The Eternals their tent finished | C |
Alarm'd with these gloomy visions | E |
When Enitharmon groaning | K |
Produc'd a man Child to the light | C |
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A shriek ran thro' Eternity | C |
And a paralytic stroke | P |
At the birth of the Human shadow | C |
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Delving earth in his resistless way | Q |
Howling the Child with fierce flames | E |
Issu'd from Enitharmon | L |
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The Eternals closed the tent | C |
They beat down the stakes the cords | E |
Stretch'd for a work of eternity | C |
No more Los beheld Eternity | C |
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In his hands he seiz'd the infant | C |
He bathed him in springs of sorrow | C |
He gave him to Enitharmon | L |
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