Colophon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFGHBIB JBJBBBKKLLMJMJ BBBBMMNNBBOBOB| TO LAYLAH EIGHT AND TWENTY | A |
| - | |
| Lamp of living loveliness | B |
| Maid miraculously male | C |
| Rapture of thine own excess | B |
| Blushing through the velvet veil | C |
| Where the olive cheeks aglow | D |
| Shadow soften into snow | D |
| Breasts like Bacchanals afloat | E |
| Under the proudly phallic throat | E |
| Be thou to my pilgrimage | F |
| Light and laughter sweet and sage | G |
| Till the darkling day expire | H |
| Of my life in thy caress | B |
| Thou my frenzy and my fire | I |
| Lamp of living loveliness | B |
| - | |
| Thou the ruler of the rod | J |
| That beneath thy clasp extends | B |
| To the galaxies of God | J |
| From the gulph where ocean ends | B |
| Cave of dragon ruby rose | B |
| Heart of hell garden close | B |
| Hyacinth petal sweet to smell | K |
| Split hoof of the glad gazelle | K |
| Be thou mine as I am thine | L |
| As the vine's ensigns entwine | L |
| At the sacring of the sun | M |
| Thou the even and I the odd | J |
| Being and becoming one | M |
| On the abacus of God | J |
| - | |
| Thou the sacred snake that rears | B |
| Death a jewelled crest across | B |
| The enchantment of the years | B |
| All my love that is my loss | B |
| Life and death two and one | M |
| Hate and love moon and sun | M |
| Light and darkness never swerve | N |
| From the norm note the nerve | N |
| Name the name exceed the excess | B |
| Of thy lamp of loveliness | B |
| Living snake of lazy love | O |
| Ithyphallic that uprears | B |
| Its Palladium above | O |
| The enchantment of the years | B |
Aleister Crowley
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