At Bordj-an-nus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCABC DEDECDEC FGFGCFHC IBJBCJBC| El Arabi El Arabi Burn in thy brilliance mine own | A |
| O Beautiful O Barbarous Seductive as a serpent is | B |
| That poises head and hood and makes his body tremble to the drone | A |
| Of tom tom and of cymbal wooed by love's assassin sorceries | B |
| El Arabi El Arabi | C |
| The moon is down we are alone | A |
| May not our mouths meet madden mix melt in the starlight of a kiss | B |
| El Arabi | C |
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| There by the palms the desert's edge I drew thee to my heart and held | D |
| Thy shy slim beauty for a splendid second and fell moaning back | E |
| Smitten by Love's forked flashing rod as if the uprooted mandrake yelled | D |
| As if I had seen God and died I thirst I writhe upon the rack | E |
| El Arabi El Arabi | C |
| It is not love I am compelled | D |
| By some fierce fate a vulture poised heaven's single ominous speck of black | E |
| El Arabi | C |
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| There in the lonely bordj across the dreadful lines of sleeping men | F |
| Swart sons of the Sahara thou didst writhe slim sinuous and swift | G |
| Warning me with a viper's hiss and was not death upon us then | F |
| No bastard of thy maiden kiss God's grace the all surpassing gift | G |
| El Arabi El Arabi | C |
| Yea death is man's Elixir when | F |
| Life's pale wine foams and splashes over his imagination's rim | H |
| El Arabi | C |
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| El Arabi El Arabi witch amber and obsidian | I |
| Thine eyes are to ensorcell me and leonine thy male caress | B |
| Will not God grant us Paradise to end the music Earth began | J |
| We play with loaded dice He cannot choose but raise right hand to bless | B |
| El Arabi El Arabi | C |
| Great is the love of God and man | J |
| While I am trembling in thine arms wild wanderer of the wilderness | B |
| El Arabi | C |
Aleister Crowley
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