Boo To Buddha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF AGAGAA AHAHFF IJIJKK LALAMM NANAOO AMAMAA PFPFQQ GRGRDD STSTAA| So it is eighteen years | A |
| Helena since we met | B |
| A season so endears | A |
| Nor you nor I forget | B |
| The fresh young faces that once clove | C |
| In that most fiery dawn of love | C |
| - | |
| We wandered to and fro | D |
| Who knew not how to woo | E |
| Those eighteen years ago | D |
| Sweetheart when I and you | E |
| Exchanged high vows in heaven's sight | F |
| That scarce survived a summer's night | F |
| - | |
| What scourge smote from the stars | A |
| What madness from the moon | G |
| That night we broke the bars | A |
| Was quintessential June | G |
| When you and I beneath the trees | A |
| Bartered our bold virginities | A |
| - | |
| Eighteen years months or hours | A |
| Time is a tyrant's toy | H |
| Eternal are the flowers | A |
| We are but girl and boy | H |
| Yet since love leapt as swift to night | F |
| As it had never left the light | F |
| - | |
| For fiercer from the South | I |
| Still flames your cruel hair | J |
| And Trojan Helen's mouth | I |
| Still not so ripe and rare | J |
| As Helena's nor love nor youth | K |
| So leaps with lust or thrills with truth | K |
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| Helena still we hold | L |
| Flesh firmer still we mix | A |
| Black hair with hair as gold | L |
| Life has but served to fix | A |
| Our hearts love lingers on the tongue | M |
| And who loves once is always young | M |
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| The stars are still the same | N |
| The changeful moon endures | A |
| Come without fear or shame | N |
| And draw my mouth to yours | A |
| Youth fails however flesh be fain | O |
| Manhood and womanhood attain | O |
| - | |
| Life is a string of pearls | A |
| And you the first I strung | M |
| You left first flower of girls | A |
| Life lyric on my tongue | M |
| An indefatigable dance | A |
| An inexhaustible romance | A |
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| Blush of love's dawn bright bud | P |
| That bloomed for my delight | F |
| First blossom of my blood | P |
| Burn in that blood to night | F |
| Helena Helena fiercely fresh | Q |
| Your flesh flies fervent to my flesh | Q |
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| What sage can dare impugn | G |
| Man's immortality | R |
| Our godhead swims immune | G |
| From death and destiny | R |
| Ignored the bubble in the flow | D |
| Of love eighteen short years ago | D |
| - | |
| Time I embrace all time | S |
| As my arm rings your waist | T |
| Space you surpass sublime | S |
| As taking me we taste | T |
| Omnipotence sense slaying sense | A |
| Soul slaying soul omniscience | A |
Aleister Crowley
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