Mad Blake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGHGH| Blake saw a treeful of angels at Peckham Rye | A |
| And his hands could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart | B |
| Blake knew how deep is Hell and Heaven how high | A |
| And could build the universe from one tiny part | B |
| Blake heard the asides of God as with furrowed brow | C |
| He sifts the star streams between the Then and the Now | C |
| In vast infant sagacity brooding an infant's grace | D |
| Shining serene on his simple benignant face | D |
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| Blake was mad they say and Space's Pandora box | E |
| Loosed its wonders upon him devils but angels indeed | F |
| I they say am sane but no key of mine unlocks | E |
| One lock of one gate wherethrough Heaven's glory is freed | F |
| And I stand and I hold my breath daylong yearlong | G |
| Out of comfort and easy dreaming evermore starting awake | H |
| Yearning beyond all sanity for some echo of that Song | G |
| Of Songs that was sung to the soul of the madman Blake | H |
William Rose Benet
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