Analysis of Athor and Asar
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
[Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair]
On the black night, beneath the winter moon,
I clothed me in the limbs of Codia,
Swooning my soul out into her red throat,
So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune
Og our ripe rythm, seemed the hideous play
Of death-worms crawling on a corpse,afloat
With life that takes its thirst
Only from things accurst.
Closer than Clodia's clasp, Death had me down
To his black heart, and fed upon my breath,
So that we seemed a stilness -whiter than
The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown
Of Stars ! For in the icy kiss of death
I found that God that is denied to man
So long as love and thought
And life avail him aught.
Scheme | X ABBAXBBB CDECDEBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000111010011001 1011010101 11100111 1011101011 11010110101 11011101001 11110101 111111 10111 101111111 1111010111 111101101 0111010101 1110010111 1111110111 111101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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