Long Odds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE EFEF GHCH EIEI JKLK KIKI MEME| How many million galaxies there are | A |
| Who knows and each has countless stars in it | B |
| And each rolls through eternities afar | A |
| Beneath the threshold of the Infinite | C |
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| How is it that will all that space to roam | D |
| I should have found this mote that spins and leaps | E |
| In what unutterable sunlight foam | D |
| Of what unfathomable starry deeps | E |
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| Who knows And how this thousand million souls | E |
| And half a thousand million souls of earth | F |
| That swarm all bound for unimagined goals | E |
| All pioneers of death enrolled at birth | F |
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| How were they swept away before my sight | G |
| That I might stand upon the single prick | H |
| Of infinite space and time as infinite | C |
| Who knows Yet here I stand climacteric | H |
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| Having found you Was it by fall of chance | E |
| Then what a stake against what odds I have won | I |
| Was it determined in God's ordinance | E |
| Then wondrous love and pity for His son | I |
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| Or was it part of an eternal law | J |
| Then how ineffably beneficent | K |
| Each thought excites an ecstasy of awe | L |
| A rapture rending the mind's firmament | K |
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| Infinity yet you and I have met | K |
| Eternity yet hand in hand we run | I |
| All odds that I should lose you or forget | K |
| But soul and spirit and body we are one | I |
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| Is this the child of Chance or Law or Will | M |
| Is None or All or One to thank for this | E |
| It will not matter if thanksgiving fill | M |
| The endless empyrean with a kiss | E |
Aleister Crowley
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