Analysis of Linoz Isidoz

Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)



Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star:
Slain is Asar.
O twinned with me in the womb of Night!
O son of my bowels to the Lord of Light!
O man of mine that hast covered me
From the shame of my virginity!
Where art thou? Is it not Apep thy brother,
The snake in my womb that am thy mother,
That hath slain thee by violence girt with guile,
And scattered thy limbs on the Nile?

Lo! I lament. I have forged a whirling Star:
I seek Asar.
O Nepti, sister! Arise in the dusk
From thy chamber of mystery and musk!
Come with me, though weary the way,
To bring back his life to the rended clay!
See! are not these the hands that wove
Delight, and these the arms that strove
With me? And these the feet, the thighs
That were lovely in mine eyes?

Lo! IO lament. I gather in my car
Thine head, Asar.
And this -is this not the trunk he rended?
But -oh! oh! oh! -the task transcended,
Where is the holy idol that stood
For the god of thy queen's beatitude?
Here is the tent -but where is the pole?
Here is the body -but where is the soul?
Nepti, sister, the work is undone
For lack of the needed One!

Lo! I lament. There is no god so far
As mine Asar!
There is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb.
But these -what are these that war in my womb?
There is vengeance and triumph at last of Maat
In Ra-Hoor-Khut and in Hoor-pa-Kraat!
Twins they shall rise; being twins they are one,
The Lord of the Sword and the Son of the Sun!
Silence, coeval colleague of the Voice,
The plumes of Amoun -rejoice!

Lo! I rejoice. I heal the sanguine scar
Of slain Asar.
I was the Past, Nature the Mother.
He was the Present, Man my brother.
Look to the Future, the Child -oh paean
The Child that is crowned in the Lion-Aeon!
The sea-dawns surge an billow and break
Beneath the scourge of the Star and the Snake.
To my lord I have borne in my womb deep-vaulted
This babe for ever exalted.


Scheme AABBCCDDEE AAFFGGHHII AABJXBKKLL AAMMBBLLNN AADDLLOOXJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 1101101011 111 111100111 11111010111 111111101 101110100 1111111110 0101111110 11111100111 01011101 11011110101 111 111001001 1110110001 11111001 111111011 11110111 01010111 11010101 1010011 11001110011 111 011110111 111101010 110101011 1011111 110111101 1101011101 11001101 1110101 1101111111 111 11111001001 1111111011 11100101111 011100111 1111101111 01101001101 10110101 011101 1101110101 111 110110010 110101110 1101001110 0111100101 011111001 0101101001 111111011110 11110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,820
Words 372
Sentences 45
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 281
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:52 min read
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Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, and mountaineer. more…

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