Mad Song

William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)



The wild winds weep
    And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
    And my griefs infold:
But lo! the morning peeps
    Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling birds of dawn
The earth do scorn.

Lo! to the vault
    Of paved heaven,
With sorrow fraught
    My notes are driven:
They strike the ear of night,
    Make weep the eyes of day;
They make mad the roaring winds,
    And with tempests play.

Like a fiend in a cloud,
    With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
    And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increas'd;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCCXX XDXDXEXE FGFGHHII
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 605
Words 113
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

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