Can you Use the Word Hermaphrodite in a Poem?

Darling Buds

Shall I compare thee to a hermaphrodite (in a poem)?

Thou art as lovely and with as furious a temper.

Rough winds of hate do sometimes shake the darling buds of the real hermaphrodite,

And gender’s leash hath all too tight a hold on all of us.

Thus, sometime too hot the eye of the hermaphrodite shines,

And often is his/her gold complexion dimm’d by persecution ;

And every man from woman, or vice versa, sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing organs untrimm’d (or unaugmented);

But thy eternal gender continuum shall not wither into too-too solid definition

Nor lose possession of that fair undifferentiated zygote thou wast;

Nor shall Death brag (yet) thou wander’st in its androgynous shade,

When in eternal women to men (and vice versa) thou grow’st:

So long as human beings can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this metaphorical hermaphrodite, and this gives life to more metaphorical hermaphrodites, etcetera, etcetera.