The Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDC EEEFGGF HHHIFFI JJJFKKF LLLMNOM PPPQRRQ| A part immutable unseen | A |
| Being before itself had been | B |
| Became Like dew a triple queen | A |
| Shone as the void uncovered | C |
| The silence of deep height was drawn | D |
| A veil across the silver dawn | D |
| On holy wings that hovered | C |
| - | |
| The music of three thoughts became | E |
| The beauty that is one white flame | E |
| The justice that surpasses shame | E |
| The victory the splendour | F |
| The sacred fountain that is whirled | G |
| From depths beyond that older world | G |
| A new world to engender | F |
| - | |
| The kingdom is extended Night | H |
| Dwells and I contemplate the sight | H |
| That is not seeing but the light | H |
| That secretly is kindled | I |
| Though oft time its most holy fire | F |
| Lacks oil whene'er my own Desire | F |
| Before desire has dwindled | I |
| - | |
| I see the thin web binding me | J |
| With thirteen cords of unity | J |
| Toward the calm centre of the sea | J |
| O thou supernal mother | F |
| The triple light my path divides | K |
| To twain and fifty sudden sides | K |
| Each perfect as each other | F |
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| Now backwards inwards still my mind | L |
| Must track the intangible and blind | L |
| And seeking shall securely find | L |
| Hidden in secret places | M |
| Fresh feasts for every soul that strives | N |
| New life for many mystic lives | O |
| And strange new forms and faces | M |
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| My mind still searches and attains | P |
| By many days and many pains | P |
| To That which Is and Was and reigns | P |
| Shadowed in four and ten | Q |
| And loses self in sacred lands | R |
| And cries and quickens and understands | R |
| Beyond the first Amen | Q |
Aleister Crowley
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