Analysis of Elegy
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;
Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.
At chess a minor master, Hoylake set
His handicap a 2. Love drove him crazy;
Thrre thousand women used to call him “pet”;
In other gardens daffodil or daisy?
He climbed a lot of mountains in his time.
He stalked the tiger, bear and elephant.
he wrote a stack of poems, some sublime
Some not. Plays, essays, pictures, tales -my aunt!
He had the gift of laughing at himself.
Most affably he talked and walked with God.
And now the silly bastard’s on the shelf,
We’ve buried him beneath another sod.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101111001 011101101 0101011111 1001011101 110101011 110011110 1101011111 0101010110 1101110011 1101010100 1101110101 1110110111 1101110101 1100110111 0101010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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