The Twins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBCD EFGEFG HHHHHH IGJIGJ HKLHHL GMGGNG HHHHHH HHHHH ONNPNN QQHHRSTU DDHHNNDedicated 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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