Adela Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCDDD ABABABDD EFEGEEDD EHEHEHDD EEEEEEDD IJKJIJDDJupiter Mars P Moon | A |
VENEZIA quot May quot quot th quot | B |
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Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue | C |
Rides on the moon a lilac conch of pearl | D |
As if the dread god charioted anew | C |
Came conquering his amazing disk awhirl | D |
To war down all the stars I see him through | C |
The hair of this mine own Italian girl | D |
Adela | D |
That bends her face on mine in the gondola | D |
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There is scarce a breath of wind on the lagoon | A |
Life is absorbed in its beatitude | B |
A meditative mage beneath the moon | A |
Ah should we come a delicate interlude | B |
To Campo Santo that this night of June | A |
Heals for awhile the immitigable feud | B |
Adela | D |
Your breath ruffles my soul in the gondola | D |
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Through maze on maze of silent waterways | E |
Guarded by lightless sentinel palaces | F |
We glide the soft plash of the oar that sways | E |
Our life like love does laps no softer seas | G |
Swoon in the bosom of Pacific bays | E |
We are in tune with the infinite ecstasies | E |
Adela | D |
Sway with me sway with me in the gondola | D |
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They hold us in these tangled sepulchres | E |
That guard such ghostly life They tower above | H |
Our passage like the cliffs of death There stirs | E |
No angel from the pinnacles thereof | H |
All broods all breeds But immanent as Hers | E |
That reigns is this most silent crown of love | H |
Adela | D |
That broods on me and is I in the gondola | D |
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They twist they twine these white and black canals | E |
Now stark with lamplight now a reach of Styx | E |
Even as out love raging wild animals | E |
Suddenly hoisted on the crucifix | E |
To radiate seraphic coronals | E |
Flowers flowers O let our light and darkness mix | E |
Adela | D |
Goddess and beast with me in the gondola | D |
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Come though your hair be a cascade of fire | I |
Your lips twin snakes your tongue the lightning flash | J |
Your teeth God's grip on life your face His lyre | K |
Your eyes His stars come let our Venus lash | J |
Our bodies with the whips of Her desire | I |
Your bed's the world your body the world ash | J |
Adela | D |
Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola | D |
Aleister Crowley
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