Analysis of The Invocation
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,
Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realms
Of terror and mild moony lustre, in soft Sexual delusions
Of varièd beauty, to delight the wanderer, and repose
His burning thirst and freezing hunger! Come into my hand,
By your mild power descending down the nerves of my right arm
From out the portals of my Brain, where by your ministry
The Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted His Paradise,
And in it caus'd the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet form
In likeness of Himself. Tell also of the False Tongue, vegetated
Beneath your land of Shadows, of its sacrifices and
Its offerings; even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God,
Became its prey; a curse, an offering, and an atonement
For Death Eternal, in the Heavens of Albion, and before the Gates
Of Jerusalem his Emanation, in the Heavens beneath Beulah!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIEJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101010101 01010101010111 1100111001100010 1101101010100001 11010101010111 111100101011111 11010111111100 0010101000110110 0011011011111 01010111010111 011111111000 1100101100101001001 011101110001010 110100010110000101 10100101000100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 702 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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