Analysis of Au Bal
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
[Dedicated to Horace Sheridan-Bickers]
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs,
The madness of the music that entrances
All life in its delirium of dances!
The white world glitters in the void, and swims
Through the infinite seas of transcendental trances.
Yea! all the hoarded seed of all my fancies
Bursts in a shower of suns! The wine-cup brims
And bubbles over; I drink deep hymns
Of sorceries, of spells, of necromancies;
And all my spirit shudders; dew bedims
My sight -these girls and their alluring glances!
Their eyes that burn like dawn's lascivious lances
Walking all earth to love -to love! Life skims
The cream of joy. If God could see what man sees,
(Intoxicating Nellies, Mauds and Nances!)
I see Him leave the sapphrine expanses,
The choir serene and the celestial air
To swoon into their sacramental hair!
Scheme | A BCCBADABAAEAADAEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100011010010 0101110101 01010101100 11010100110 0111000101 10100110101 11010111110 10010110111 010101111 111111 011101011 11110101010 11111101001 1011111111 01111111111 01001101 111101010 01001000101 1101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 813 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 18 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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