The Book Of Urizen: Chapter Vii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BACBDCBCEB FBG BHFCI JKJL MMN OPQ ECRCCC BCF C| They named the child Orc he grew | A |
| Fed with milk of Enitharmon | B |
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| Los awoke her O sorrow pain | B |
| A tight'ning girdle grew | A |
| Around his bosom In sobbings | C |
| He burst the girdle in twain | B |
| But still another girdle | D |
| Opressd his bosom In sobbings | C |
| Again he burst it Again | B |
| Another girdle succeeds | C |
| The girdle was form'd by day | E |
| By night was burst in twain | B |
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| These falling down on the rock | F |
| Into an iron Chain | B |
| In each other link by link lock'd | G |
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| They took Orc to the top of a mountain | B |
| O how Enitharmon wept | H |
| They chain'd his young limbs to the rock | F |
| With the Chain of Jealousy | C |
| Beneath Urizens deathful shadow | I |
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| The dead heard the voice of the child | J |
| And began to awake from sleep | K |
| All things heard the voice of the child | J |
| And began to awake to life | L |
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| And Urizen craving with hunger | M |
| Stung with the odours of Nature | M |
| Explor'd his dens around | N |
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| He form'd a line a plummet | O |
| To divide the Abyss beneath | P |
| He form'd a dividing rule | Q |
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| He formed scales to weigh | E |
| He formed massy weights | C |
| He formed a brazen quadrant | R |
| He formed golden compasses | C |
| And began to explore the Abyss | C |
| And he planted a garden of fruits | C |
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| But Los encircled Enitharmon | B |
| With fires of Prophecy | C |
| From the sight of Urizen Orc | F |
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| And she bore an enormous race | C |
William Blake
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