O Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm,That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:
Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.
The introduction
The topic is illness which is clearly visible in the poem I focus on “The Sick Rose”. It was first seen in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794 and is one of Blakes best-known poems, while being his most enigmatic poem.
The analysis
How the topic of illness is conveyed in the poemHere illness is present throughout the whole poem and is portrayed in the form of an invisible worm that flies in the storm. If in the poem, the rose is read as a symbol for natural beauty, the poem becomes and allegory for the inevitable destruction of such beauty. The fate of the rose could also be a representation of the corruption of innocence in the harsh reality, meaning the worm might not only be an illness towards the rose, but the rest of the world.
The composition of the poemThe poem contains two stanzas with four lines each. This is called a quatrain stanza
The poem follows a regular rhyme scheme (also the rhyme scheme of a ballad stanza) with line two and four rhyming in both stanzas.The pattern being: ABCB DEFE.
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