Holy Thursday (Experience)
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Is this a holy thing to see.
In a rich and fruitful land.
Babes reduced to misery.
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill'd with thorns
It is eternal winter there.
For where-e'er the sun does shine.
And where-e'er the rain does fall:
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB XXXA CDXD CEDE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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