Adela Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCDDD ABABABDD EFEGEEDD EHEHEHDD EEEEEEDD IJKJIJDD| Jupiter 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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