The Book Of Urizen (excerpts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEE FGHGA IJGKL MNOPQ RSCT SUVWXNYSR| Lo a shadow of horror is risen | A |
| In Eternity Unknown unprolific | B |
| Self clos'd all repelling what demon | A |
| Hath form'd this abominable void | C |
| This soul shudd'ring vacuum Some said | D |
| 'It is Urizen ' But unknown abstracted | E |
| Brooding secret the dark power hid | E |
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| Times on times he divided and measur'd | F |
| Space by space in his ninefold darkness | G |
| Unseen unknown changes appear'd | H |
| Like desolate mountains rifted furious | G |
| By the black winds of perturbation | A |
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| For he strove in battles dire | I |
| In unseen conflictions with shapes | J |
| Bred from his forsaken wilderness | G |
| Of beast bird fish serpent and element | K |
| Combustion blast vapour and cloud | L |
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| Dark revolving in silent activity | M |
| Unseen in tormenting passions | N |
| An activity unknown and horrible | O |
| A self contemplating shadow | P |
| In enormous labours occupied | Q |
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| But Eternals beheld his vast forests | R |
| Age on ages he lay clos'd unknown | S |
| Brooding shut in the deep all avoid | C |
| The petrific abominable chaos | T |
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| His cold horrors silent dark Urizen | S |
| Prepar'd his ten thousands of thunders | U |
| Rang'd in gloom'd array stretch out across | V |
| The dread world and the rolling of wheels | W |
| As of swelling seas sound in his clouds | X |
| In his hills of stor'd snows in his mountains | N |
| Of hail and ice voices of terror | Y |
| Are heard like thunders of autumn | S |
| When the cloud blazes over the harvests | R |
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