The Hermit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AA AA AA AC BB AA AA DD EE FF BB AA| AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT | A |
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| Dedicated to George Cecil Jones | B |
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| At last an end of all I hoped and feared | A |
| Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard | A |
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| Then what art thou the evil whisper whirred | A |
| I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard | A |
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| To all God's questions never a word he said | A |
| But simply shook his venerable head | A |
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| God sent all plagues he laughed and heeded not | A |
| Till people certified him insane | C |
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| But somehow all his fellow luntaics | B |
| Began to imitate his silly ticks | B |
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| And stranger still their prospects so enlarged | A |
| That one by one the patients were discharged | A |
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| God asked him by what right he interfered | A |
| He only laughed and into his elfin beard | A |
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| When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer | D |
| He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire | D |
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| Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai's thunder | E |
| But on the other hand he made no blunder | E |
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| He knew no doubt that any axiom | F |
| Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom | F |
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| But all who urged that hermit to confess | B |
| Caught the infection of his happiness | B |
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| I would it were my fate to dree his weird | A |
| I think that I will grow an elfin beard | A |
Aleister Crowley
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