The Neophyte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHIHIJKJL MNMNOPOPBQBQGFRFSTST UAUABIBIVMVMWBWBXEXE MVMVMCECY E| To night I tread the unsubstantial way | A |
| That looms before me as the thundering night | B |
| Falls on the ocean I must stop and pray | A |
| One little prayer and then what bitter fight | B |
| Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal | C |
| These are my passions that my feet must read | D |
| This is my sword the fervour of my soul | C |
| This is my Will the crown upon my head | D |
| For see the darkness beckons I have gone | E |
| Before this terrible hour towards the gloom | F |
| Braved the wild dragon called the tiger on | G |
| With whirling cries of pride sought out the tomb | F |
| Where lurking vampires battened and my steel | H |
| Has wrought its splendour through the gates of death | I |
| My courage did not falter now I feel | H |
| My heart beat wave wise and my throat catch breath | I |
| As if I choked some horror creeps between | J |
| The spirit of my will and its desire | K |
| Some just reluctance to the Great Unseen | J |
| That coils its nameless terrors and its dire | L |
| Fear round my heart a devil cold as ice | M |
| Breathes somewhere for I feel his shudder take | N |
| My veins some deadlier asp or cockatrice | M |
| Slimes in my senses I am half awake | N |
| Half automatic as I move along | O |
| Wrapped in a cloud of blackness deep as hell | P |
| Hearing afar some half forgotten song | O |
| As of disruption yet strange glories dwell | P |
| Above my head as if a sword of light | B |
| Rayed of the very Dawn would strike within | Q |
| The limitations of this deadly night | B |
| That folds me for the sign of death and sin | Q |
| O Light descend My feet move vaguely on | G |
| In this amazing darkness in the gloom | F |
| That I can touch with trembling sense There shone | R |
| Once in my misty memory in the womb | F |
| Of some unformulated thought the flame | S |
| And smoke of mighty pillars yet my mind | T |
| Is clouded with the horror of this same | S |
| Path of the wise men for my soul is blind | T |
| Yet and the foemen I have never feared | U |
| I could not see if such should cross the way | A |
| And therefore I am strange my soul is seared | U |
| With desolation of the blinding day | A |
| I have come out from yes that fearful light | B |
| Was not the Sun my life has been the death | I |
| This death may be the life my spirit sight | B |
| Knows that at last at least My doubtful breath | I |
| Is breathing in a nobler air I know | V |
| I know it in my soul despite of this | M |
| The clinging darkness of the Long Ago | V |
| Cruel as death and closer than a kiss | M |
| This horror of great darkness I am come | W |
| Into this darkness to attain the light | B |
| To gain my voice I make myself as dumb | W |
| That I may see I close my outer sight | B |
| So I am here My brows are bent in prayer | X |
| I kneel already in the Gates of Dawn | E |
| And I am come albeit unaware | X |
| To the deep sanctuary my hope is drawn | E |
| From wells profounder than the very sea | M |
| Yea I am come where least I guessed it so | V |
| Into the very Presence of the Three | M |
| That Are beyond all Gods And now I know | V |
| What spiritual Light is drawing me | M |
| Up to its stooping splendour In my soul | C |
| I feel the Spring the all devouring Dawn | E |
| Rush with my Rising There beyond the goal | C |
| The Veil is rent | Y |
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| Yes let the veil be drawn | E |
Aleister Crowley
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