Earth's Answer
Poem by William Blake / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Earth's Answer is a poem by William Blake within his larger collection called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (published 1794).[2] It is the response to the previous poem in The Songs of Experience-- Introduction (Blake, 1794). In the Introduction, the bard asks the Earth to wake up and claim ownership. In this poem, the feminine Earth responds.
"Earth's Answer" is composed of five stanzas, each having five lines. With the exceptions of the third and fourth, the stanzas follow an ABAAB rhyme scheme.