Poetry of Blake: The Book of Thel

The Book of Thel is one of William Blake’s allegorical poems on the themes of innocence and experience. It is written in a series of, mainly, five line stanzas which are unrhymed and composed of iambic septameter (i.e. seven feet in a line).

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