The Mantra-yoga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DDEFFE A GHHGIHHG JJKKL| I | A |
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| How should I seek to make a song for thee | B |
| When all my music is to moan thy name | C |
| That long sad monotone the same the same | C |
| Matching the mute insatiable sea | B |
| That throbs with life's bewitching agony | B |
| Too long to measure and too fierce to tame | C |
| An hurtful joy a fascinating shame | C |
| Is this great ache that grips the heart of me | B |
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| Even as a cancer so this passion gnaws | D |
| Away my soul and will not ease its jaws | D |
| Till I am dead Then let me die Who knows | E |
| But that this corpse committed to the earth | F |
| May be the occasion of some happier birth | F |
| Spring's earliest snowdrop Summer's latest rose | E |
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| II | A |
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| Thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth | G |
| In the white breast that trembled like a flower | H |
| At thy name whispered thou hast marked how hour | H |
| By hour its poison hath dissolved my youth | G |
| Half skilled to agonise half skilled to soothe | I |
| This passion ineluctable this power | H |
| Slave to its single end to storm the tower | H |
| That holdeth thee who art Authentic Truth | G |
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| O golden hawk O lidless eye Behold | J |
| How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold | J |
| Still I will strive That thou mayst sweep | K |
| Swift on the dead from thine all seeing steep | K |
| And the unutterable word by spoken | L |
Aleister Crowley
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