The Four Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDD DDEE DDD FF GG HH IJ KK LL MM NN DD GG OO PP QQ QQ| The South wind said to the palms | A |
| My lovers sing me psalms | B |
| But are they as warm as those | C |
| That Laylah's lover knows | C |
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| The North wind said to the firs | D |
| I have my worshippers | D |
| But are they as keen as hers | D |
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| The East wind said to the cedars | D |
| My friends are no seceders | D |
| But is their faith to me | E |
| As firm as his faith must be | E |
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| The West wind said to the yews | D |
| My children are pure as dews | D |
| But what of her lover's muse | D |
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| So to spite the summer weather | F |
| The four winds howled together | F |
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| But a great Voice from above | G |
| Cried What do you know of love | G |
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| Do you think all nature worth | H |
| The littlest life upon earth | H |
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| I made the germ and the ant | I |
| The tiger and elephant | J |
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| In the least of these there is more | K |
| Than your elemental war | K |
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| And the lovers whom ye slight | L |
| Are precious in my sight | L |
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| Peace to your mischief brewing | M |
| I love to watch their wooing | M |
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| Of all this Laylah heard | N |
| Never a word | N |
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| She lay beneath the trees | D |
| With her lover at her knees | D |
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| He sang of God above | G |
| And of love | G |
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| She lay at his side | O |
| Well satisfied | O |
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| And at set of sun | P |
| They were one | P |
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| Before they slept her pure smile curled | Q |
| quot God bless all lovers in the World quot | Q |
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| And so say I the self same word | Q |
| Nor doubt God heard | Q |
Aleister Crowley
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