The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEF ECGH IHE JHCEK HELMECNO CEKC CPC QEL CECC CCL| But 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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