The Echoing Green is a poem by William Blake published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. The poem follows the structure of a day? 'the sun does arise' in the beginning of the first verse, and 'the sun does descend' in the middle of the third verse. The poem is the contrast of innocence and experience, but also the contrast between perception of joys and sorrows. What is happening on the Green will happen again, shown by the 'old folk' who watch the children and reminisce about their own childhood on the Green. The whole poem is written in 6 sentences with much repetition. The poem could also be attributed to the life of a person? birth, life, death. Poem text The Sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bell rings To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The bird of the bush, Sings lounder around To the bell's chearful

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