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 SpareA
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Have pity show no pityB
Those eyes that send such shiversC
Into my brain and spine oh let themD
Flame like the ancient cityB
Swallowed up by the sulphurous riversC
When men let angels fret themD
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Yea let the south wind blowE
And the Turkish banner advanceF
And the word go out No quarterG
But I shall hod thee soE
While the boys and maidens danceF
About the shambles of slaughterG
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I know thee who thou artH
The inmost fiend that curlestH
Thy vampire tounge aboutH
Earth's corybantic heartH
Hell's warrior that whirlestH
The darts of horror and doubtH
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Thou knowest me who I amI
The inmost soul and saviourG
Of man what hieroglyphJ
Of the dragon and the lambI
Shall thou and I engrave hereG
On Time's inscandescable cliffJ
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Look in the plished graniteH
Black as thy cartouche is with sinsK
I read the searing sentenceL
That blasts the eyes that scan itH
quot HOOR and SET be TWINS quotH
A fico for repentanceL
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Ay O Son of my motherG
That snarled and clawed in her wombM
As now we rave in our raptureG
I know thee I love thee brotherG
Incestuous males that consumesN
The light and the life that we captureG
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Starve thou the soul of the worldH
Brother as I the bodyH
Shall we not glut our lustH
On these wretches whom Fate hath hurledH
To a hell of jesus and shoddyH
Dung and ethics and dustH
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Thou as I art FateH
Coe then conquer and kiss meH
Come what hinders Believe meH
This is the thought we awaitH
The mark is fair can you miss meH
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See how subtly I writheO
Strange runes and unknown sigilsN
I trace in the trance that thrills usN
Death how lithe how blitheP
Are these male incestuous vigilsN
Ah this is the spasm that kills usN
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Wherefore I solemnly affirmQ
This twofold Oneness at the termQ
Asar on Asi did begetH
Horus twin brother unto SetH
Now Set and Horus kiss to callR
The Soul of the UnnaturalS
Forth from the dusk then nature slainT
Lets the Beyond be born againU
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This weird is of the tongue of KhemD
The Conjuration used of themD
Whoso shall speak it let him dieH
His bowels rotting inwardlyH
Save he uncover and caressN
The God that lighteth his liesseN

Aleister Crowley



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