Analysis of Dionysus
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
I bring ye wine from above,
From the vats of the storied sun;
For every one of yer love,
And life for every one.
Ye shall dance on hill and level;
Ye shall sing in hollow and height
In the festal mystical revel,
The rapurous Bacchanal rite!
The rocks and trees are yours,
And the waters under the hill,
By the might of that which endures,
The holy heaven of will!
I kindle a flame like a torrent
To rush from star to star;
Your hair as a comet’s horrent,
Ye shall see things as they are!
I lift the mask of matter;
I open the heart of man;
For I am of force to shatter
The cast that hideth -Pan!
Your loves shall lap up slaughter,
And dabbled with roses of blood
Each desperate darling daughter
Shall swim in the fervid flood.
I bring ye laughter and tears,
The kisses that foam and bleed,
The joys of a million years,
The flowers that bear no seed.
My life is bitter and sterile,
Its flame is a wandering star.
Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril
Across the mystic bar
That is set for wrath and weeping
Against the children of earth;
But ye in singing and sleeping
Shall pass in measure and mirth!
I lift my wand and wave you
Through hill to hill of delight :
My rosy rivers lave you
In innermost lustral light..
I lead you, lord of the maze,
In the darkness free of the sun;
In spite of the spite that is day’s
We are wed, we are wild, we are one.
At Shigar Baltistan.
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Metre | 1111101 10110101 11001111 0111001 11111010 11101001 00110010 010101 010111 00101001 10111101 0101011 110011010 111111 1110101 1111111 1101110 1100111 11111110 01111 1111110 01011011 1101010 1100101 1111001 0101101 0110101 0101111 11110010 11101001 111010010 010101 11111010 0101011 11010010 1101001 1111011 1111101 1101011 01011 1111101 00101101 01101111 111111111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,338 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 44, 1 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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