The Garden Of Janus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDD A EFEFEGC AGHGHGIJ DKDKDLL D MNONO PQPQPRR STSTSUU VRVRVWW D XYXYXZZ A2VA2VA2B2C2 X X XVV D2 D2DD2E2E2 F2LF2LF2E2G2 F2 F2 F2VV V V V V V VVV G2VG2VG2XX V CC H2 H2 I2I2 VVVVV D2VD2VD2 VD2VD2V VZVZVJ2E2 CK2CK2D2VV V VC2VL2L2 M2 M2 N2N2 O2 O2 O2VV G G GVV O2O2I | A |
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The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam | B |
The vault yet blazes with the sun | C |
Writhing above the West brave hippodrome | B |
Whose gladiators shock and shun | C |
As the blue night devours them crested comb | B |
Of sleep's dead sea | D |
That eats the shores of life rings round eternity | D |
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II | A |
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So he is gone whose giant sword shed flame | E |
Into my bowels my blood's bewitched | F |
My brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame | E |
That tearing pain is gone enriched | F |
By his life spasm but he being gone the same | E |
Myself is gone | G |
Sucked by the dragon down below death's horizon | C |
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III | A |
I woke from this I lay upon the lawn | G |
They had thrown roses on the moss | H |
With all their thorns we came there at the dawn | G |
My lord and I God sailed across | H |
The sky in's galleon of amber drawn | G |
By singing winds | I |
While we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds | J |
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IV | - |
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All day my lover deigned to murder me | D |
Linking his kisses in a chain | K |
About my neck demon embroidery | D |
Bruises like far ff mountains stain | K |
The valley of my body of ivory | D |
Then last came sleep | L |
I wake and he is gone what should I do but weep | L |
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V | D |
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Nay for I wept enough more sacred tears | M |
When first he pinned me gripped | N |
My flesh and as a stallion that rears | O |
Sprang hero thewed and satyr lipped | N |
Crushed as a grape between his teeth my fears | O |
Sucked out my life | - |
And stamped me with the shame the monstrous word of | - |
wife | - |
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VI | - |
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I will not weep nay I will follow him | P |
Perchance he is not far | Q |
Bathing his limbs in some delicious dim | P |
Depth where the evening star | Q |
May kiss his mouth or by the black sky's rim | P |
He makes his prayer | R |
To the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there | R |
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VII | - |
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I rose to seek him First my footsteps faint | S |
Pressed the starred moss but soon | T |
I wandered like some sweet sequestered saint | S |
Into the wood my mind The moon | T |
Was staggered by the trees with fierce constraint | S |
Hardly one ray | U |
Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay | U |
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VIII | - |
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I wandered crying on my Lord I wandered | V |
Eagerly seeking everywhere | R |
The stories of life that on my lips he squandered | V |
Grew into shrill cries of despair | R |
Until the dryads frightened and dumfoundered | V |
Fled into space | W |
Like to a demon king's was grown my maiden face | W |
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XI | D |
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At last I came unto the well my soul | X |
In that still glass I saw no sign | Y |
Of him and yet what visions there uproll | X |
To cloud that mirror soul of mine | Y |
Above my head there screams a flying scroll | X |
Whose word burnt through | Z |
My being as when stars drop in black disastrous dew | Z |
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X | - |
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For in that scroll was written how the globe | A2 |
Of space became of how the light | V |
Broke in that space and wrapped it in a robe | A2 |
Of glory of how One most white | V |
Withdrew that Whole and hid it in the lobe | A2 |
Of his right Ear | B2 |
So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear | C2 |
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IX | - |
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Yea and the end revealed a word a spell | X |
An incantation a device | - |
Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible | X |
Wakes from its wilderness of ice | - |
To flame whereby the very core of hell | X |
Bursts from its rind | V |
Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind | V |
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XII | - |
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So then I saw my fault I plunged within | D2 |
The well and brake the images | - |
That I had made as I must make Men spin | D2 |
The webs that snare them while the knee | D |
Bend to the tyrant God or unto Sin | D2 |
The lecher sunder | E2 |
Ah came that undulant light from over or from under | E2 |
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XIII | - |
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It matters not Come change come Woe Come mask | F2 |
Drive Light Life Love into the deep | L |
In vain we labour at the loathsome task | F2 |
Not knowing if we wake or sleep | L |
But in the end we lift the plumed casque | F2 |
Of the dead warrior | E2 |
Find no chaste corpse therein but a soft smiling whore | G2 |
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XIV | - |
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Then I returned into myself and took | F2 |
All in my arms God's universe | - |
Crushed its black juice out while His anger shook | F2 |
His dumbness pregnant with a curse | - |
I made me ink and in a little book | F2 |
I wrote one word | V |
That God himself the adder of Thought had never heard | V |
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XV | - |
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It detonated Nature God mankind | V |
Like sulphur nitre charcoal once | - |
Blended in one annihilation blind | V |
Were rent into a myriad of suns | - |
Yea all the mighty fabric of a Mind | V |
Stood in the abyss | - |
Belching a Law for quot That quot more awful than for quot This quot | V |
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XVI | - |
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Vain was the toil So then I left the wood | V |
And came unto the still black sea | - |
That oily monster of beatitude | V |
'Hath quot Thee quot for quot Me quot and quot Me quot for quot Thee quot | V |
There as I stood a mask of solitude | V |
Hiding a face | - |
Wried as a satyr's rolled that ocean into space | - |
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XVII | - |
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Then did I build an altar on the shore | G2 |
Of oyster shells and ringed it round | V |
With star fish Thither a green flame I bore | G2 |
Of phosphor foam and strewed the ground | V |
With dew drops children of my wand whose core | G2 |
Was trembling steel | X |
Electric that made spin the universal Wheel | X |
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XVIII | - |
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With that a goat came running from the cave | - |
That lurked below the tall white cliff | - |
Thy name cried I The answer that gave | - |
Was but one tempest whisper quot If quot | V |
Ah then his tongue to his black palate clave | - |
For on soul's curtain | C |
Is written this one certainty that naught is certain | C |
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XIX | - |
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So then I caught that goat up in a kiss | - |
And cried Io Pan Io Pan Io Pan | H2 |
Then all this body's wealth of ambergris | - |
Narcissus scented flesh of man | H2 |
I burnt before him in the sacrifice | - |
For he was sure | I2 |
Being the Doubt of Things the one thing to endure | I2 |
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XX | - |
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Wherefore when madness took him at the end | V |
He doubt goat slew the goat of doubt | V |
And that which inward did for ever tend | V |
Came at the last to have come out | V |
And I who had the World and God to friend | V |
Found all three foes | - |
Drowned in that sea of changes vacancies and woes | - |
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XXI | - |
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Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein | D2 |
So they were not and it was not | V |
As who should sweat his soul out through the skin | D2 |
And find sad fool he had begot | V |
All that without him that he had left in | D2 |
And in himself | - |
All he had taken out thereof a mocking elf | - |
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XXII | - |
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But now that all was gone great Pan appeared | V |
Him then I strove to woo to win | D2 |
Kissing his curled lips playing with his beard | V |
Setting his brain a shake a spin | D2 |
By that strong wand and muttering of the weird | V |
That only I | - |
Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky | - |
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XXIII | - |
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So still I conquered and the vision passed | V |
Yet still was beaten for I knew | Z |
Myself was He Himself the first and last | V |
And as an unicorn drinks dew | Z |
From under oak leaves so my strength was cast | V |
Into the mire | J2 |
For all I did was dream and all I dreamt desire | E2 |
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XXIV | - |
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More in this journey I had clean forgotten | C |
The quest my lover But the tomb | K2 |
Of all these thoughts the rancid and the rotten | C |
Proved in the end to be my womb | K2 |
Wherein my Lord and lover had begotten | D2 |
A little child | V |
To drive me laughing lion into the wanton wild | V |
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XXV | - |
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This child hath not one hair upon his head | V |
But he hath wings instead of ears | - |
No eyes hath he but all his light is shed | V |
Within him on the ordered sphere | C2 |
Of nature that he hideth and in stead | V |
Of mouth he hath | L2 |
One minute point of jet silence the lightning path | L2 |
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XXVI | - |
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Also his nostrils are shut up for he | - |
Hath not the need of any breath | M2 |
Nor can the curtain of eternity | - |
Cover that head with life or death | M2 |
So all his body a slim almond tree | - |
Knoweth no bough | N2 |
Nor branch nor twig nor bud from never until now | N2 |
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XXVII | - |
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This thought I bred within my bowels I am | O2 |
I am in him as he in me | - |
And like a satyr ravishing a lamb | O2 |
So either seems or as the sea | - |
Swallows the whale that swallows it the ram | O2 |
Beats its own head | V |
Upon the city walls that fall as it falls dead | V |
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XXVIII | - |
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Come let me back unto the lilied lawn | G |
Pile me the roses and the thorns | - |
Upon this bed from which he hath withdrawn | G |
He may return A million morns | - |
May follow that first dire daemonic dawn | G |
When he did split | V |
My spirit with his lightnings and enveloped it | V |
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XXIX | - |
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So I am stretched out naked to the knife | - |
My whole soul twitching with the stress | - |
Of the expected yet surprising strife | - |
A martyrdom of blessedness | - |
Though Death came I could kiss him into life | - |
Though Life came I | - |
Could kiss him into death and yet nor live nor die | - |
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XXX | - |
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Yet I that am the babe the sire the dam | O2 |
Am | O2 |
Aleister Crowley
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