Analysis of Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los:
And every space that a man views around his dwelling-place
Standing on his own roof or in his garden on a mount
Of twenty-five cubits in height, such space is his universe:
And on its verge the sun rises and sets, the clouds bow
To meet the flat earth and the sea in such an order'd space:
The starry heavens reach no further, but here bend and set
On all sides, and the two Poles turn on their valves of gold:
And if he moves his dwelling-place, his heavens also move
Where'er he goes, and all his neighbourhood bewail his loss.
Such are the spaces called Earth and such its dimension.
As to that false appearance which appears to the reasoner
As of a globe rolling through voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro.
The microscope knows not of this nor the telescope: they alter
The ratio of the spectator's organs, but leave objects untouch'd.
For every space larger than a red globule of Man's blood
Is visionary, and is created by the Hammer of Los;
And every space smaller than a globule of Man's blood opens
Into Eternity of which this vegetable Earth is but a shadow.
The red globule is the unwearied sun by Los created
To measure time and space to mortal men every morning
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Metre | 01110101110111 010011011011101 10111110110101 1101101111110 0111011001011 11011001011101 01010111011101 1110011111111 01111101110101 10110111111 1101011011010 111101010110100 1101101111001011 01011111010110 01010110111001 11001101011111 110001010101011 010011010111110 01010011110011101 011101111010 110101110110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,261 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 970 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 230 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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