The Disciples Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BABBA CDCCD EFEEA ADAAD AGHHG AAAAA BABBA| quot To Lionel Engers Kennedy to the memory of Hargrave Jennings and | A |
| to A C W G and H E H quot | A |
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| Beneath the vine tree and the fig | B |
| Where mortal cares may not intrude | A |
| On melon and on sucking pig | B |
| Although their brains are bright and big | B |
| Banquet the Great White Brotherhood | A |
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| Among the fountains and the trees | C |
| That fringed his garden's glowing border | D |
| At sunset walked and in the breeze | C |
| With his disciples took his ease | C |
| An Adept of the Holy Order | D |
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| quot My children quot Said the holy man | E |
| quot Once more I'm willing to unmask me | F |
| This is my birthday and my plan | E |
| Is to bestow on you I can | E |
| Whatever favour you may ask me quot | A |
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| Nor curiosity nor greed | A |
| Brought these disciples to disaster | D |
| For being very wise indeed | A |
| The adolescents all agreed | A |
| To ask His Secret of the Master | D |
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| With the quot aplomb quot and quot savoir faire quot | A |
| Peculiar to Eastern races | G |
| He took the secret then and there | H |
| What is not lawful to declare | H |
| And thrust it rudely in their faces | G |
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| quot A filthy insult quot screamed the first | A |
| The second smiled quot Ingenious blind quot | A |
| The youngest neither blessed nor cursed | A |
| Contented to believe the worst | A |
| That He had spoken all his mind | A |
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| The second earned the name of prig | B |
| The first the epithet of prude | A |
| The third as merry as a grig | B |
| On melon and on sucking pig | B |
| Feasts with the Great White Brotherhood | A |
Aleister Crowley
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