Dumb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE BFBF| Gabriel whispered in mine ear | A |
| His archangelic poesie | B |
| How can I write I only hear | A |
| The sobbing murmur of the sea | B |
| - | |
| Raphael breathed and bade me pass | B |
| His rapt evangel to mankind | C |
| I cannot even match alas | B |
| The ululation of the wind | C |
| - | |
| The gross grey gods like gargoyles spit | D |
| On every poet's holy head | E |
| No mustard seed of truth or wit | D |
| In those curst furrows quick or dead | E |
| - | |
| A tithe of what I know would cleanse | B |
| The leprosy of earth and I | F |
| My limits are like other men's | B |
| I must live dumb and dumb must die | F |
Aleister Crowley
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