The Twins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBCD EFGEFG HHHHHH IGJIGJ HKLHHL GMGGNG HHHHHH HHHHH ONNPNN QQHHRSTU DDHHNN| Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare | A |
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| Have pity show no pity | B |
| Those eyes that send such shivers | C |
| Into my brain and spine oh let them | D |
| Flame like the ancient city | B |
| Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers | C |
| When men let angels fret them | D |
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| Yea let the south wind blow | E |
| And the Turkish banner advance | F |
| And the word go out No quarter | G |
| But I shall hod thee so | E |
| While the boys and maidens dance | F |
| About the shambles of slaughter | G |
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| I know thee who thou art | H |
| The inmost fiend that curlest | H |
| Thy vampire tounge about | H |
| Earth's corybantic heart | H |
| Hell's warrior that whirlest | H |
| The darts of horror and doubt | H |
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| Thou knowest me who I am | I |
| The inmost soul and saviour | G |
| Of man what hieroglyph | J |
| Of the dragon and the lamb | I |
| Shall thou and I engrave here | G |
| On Time's inscandescable cliff | J |
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| Look in the plished granite | H |
| Black as thy cartouche is with sins | K |
| I read the searing sentence | L |
| That blasts the eyes that scan it | H |
| quot HOOR and SET be TWINS quot | H |
| A fico for repentance | L |
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| Ay O Son of my mother | G |
| That snarled and clawed in her womb | M |
| As now we rave in our rapture | G |
| I know thee I love thee brother | G |
| Incestuous males that consumes | N |
| The light and the life that we capture | G |
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| Starve thou the soul of the world | H |
| Brother as I the body | H |
| Shall we not glut our lust | H |
| On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled | H |
| To a hell of jesus and shoddy | H |
| Dung and ethics and dust | H |
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| Thou as I art Fate | H |
| Coe then conquer and kiss me | H |
| Come what hinders Believe me | H |
| This is the thought we await | H |
| The mark is fair can you miss me | H |
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| See how subtly I writhe | O |
| Strange runes and unknown sigils | N |
| I trace in the trance that thrills us | N |
| Death how lithe how blithe | P |
| Are these male incestuous vigils | N |
| Ah this is the spasm that kills us | N |
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| Wherefore I solemnly affirm | Q |
| This twofold Oneness at the term | Q |
| Asar on Asi did beget | H |
| Horus twin brother unto Set | H |
| Now Set and Horus kiss to call | R |
| The Soul of the Unnatural | S |
| Forth from the dusk then nature slain | T |
| Lets the Beyond be born again | U |
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| This weird is of the tongue of Khem | D |
| The Conjuration used of them | D |
| Whoso shall speak it let him die | H |
| His bowels rotting inwardly | H |
| Save he uncover and caress | N |
| The God that lighteth his liesse | N |
Aleister Crowley
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