Analysis of The Rose and the Cross
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
Out of the seething cauldron of my woes,
Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung;
Where charmed music gathered from my tongue,
And where I chained strange archipelagoes
Of fallen stars; where fiery passion flows
A curious bitumen; where among
The glowing medley moved the tune unsung
Of perfect love: thence grew the Mystic Rose.
Its myriad petals of divided light;
Its leaves of the most radiant emerald;
Its heart of fire like rubies. At the sight
I lifted up my heart to God and called:
How shall I pluck this dream of my desire?
And lo! there shaped itself the Cross of Fire!
Scheme | ABBAABBA CXCXDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 1101010011 111010111 011111 11011100101 010010101 0101010101 1011110101 11001010101 1110110010 11110110101 1101111101 11111111010 01110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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