The Ladder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A B CCDDAA EEFEEF A GAAGAE EEEAA H A AAAAEE H I JEKHA| Dedicated to K M Ward | A |
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| quot I will arise and go unto my father quot | A |
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| MALKUTH | B |
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| Dark dark all dark I cower I cringe | C |
| Only ablove me is a citron tinge | C |
| As if some echo of red gold and lue | D |
| Chimed on the night and let its shadow through | D |
| Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled | A |
| Am the right heir of glory the crowned child | A |
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| I match my might against my Fate's | E |
| I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores | E |
| I arm myself the war to win | F |
| Lift up your heads O mighty gates | E |
| Be ye lift up ye everlasting doors | E |
| The King of Glory shall come in | F |
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| TAU | A |
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| I pass from the citrine deep indigo | G |
| Is this tall column Snakes and vultures bend | A |
| Their hooted hate on him that would ascend | A |
| O may the Four avail me Ageless woe | G |
| Fear torture throng the treshold LO The end | A |
| Of Matter The immensity of things | E |
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| Let loose new laws new beings new conditions | E |
| Dire chaos see these new fledged wings | E |
| Fail in its vagueness and initiations | E |
| Only my circle saves me from the hate | A |
| Of all these monsters dead yet animate | A |
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| I match c | H |
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| YESOD | A |
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| Hail thou full moon O flame of Amethyst | A |
| Stupendous mountain on whose shoulders rest | A |
| The Eight Above More stable is my crest | A |
| Than thine and now I pierce thee veil of mist | A |
| Even as an arrow from the war bow springs | E |
| I leap my life is set with loftier things | E |
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| I match c | H |
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| SAMECH and the crossing of the Path of Pe | I |
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| Now swift thou azure shaft of fading fire | J |
| Pierce through the rainbow Swift O swift how streams | E |
| The world by Let Sandalphon and his quire | K |
| Of Angels ward me | H |
| Ho what | A |
Aleister Crowley
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