The Atheist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAB AFGG HIGG IAIG JAKG LKMG NOOG| Nor thou Habib nor I are glad | A |
| when rosy limbs and sweat entwine | B |
| But rapture drowns the sense and self | C |
| the wine the drawer of the wine | B |
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| And Him that planted first the grape | D |
| o podex in thy vault there dwells | E |
| A charm to make the member mad | A |
| And shake the marrow of the spine | B |
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| O member in thy stubborn strenght | A |
| a power avails on podex sense | F |
| To boil the blood in breast and brain | G |
| shudder the nreves incarnadine | G |
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| From me thou drawest pearly drink | H |
| and in its pourings both are drunk | I |
| The Iman drives forth the drunken man | G |
| from out the marble prayer shrine | G |
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| Blue Mushtari strove with red Mirrikh | I |
| which should be master of the night | A |
| But where is Mushtari where Mirrikh | I |
| when in the sky the sun doth shine | G |
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| Now El Qahar to Hazif gives | J |
| the worship unto poets due | A |
| But songs are nought and Music all | K |
| what poet music may define | G |
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| Allah's the atheist he owns | L |
| no Allah Sneer thou dullard churl | K |
| The Sufi worships not but drinks | M |
| being himself the all divine | G |
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| Come my Habib the roses blush | N |
| the waters gleam the bulbul sings | O |
| To pierce thy podex El Quahar's | O |
| urgent and and imminent design | G |
Aleister Crowley
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