Analysis of Prologue to Rodin in Rime
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures
The simple truth of me that is yours.
Is not the music mingled with the form
When all the heavens break in blind black storm?
Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they,
Smiting our brilliance on the shuddering clay?
Silence and darkness cover us, confirm
Our splendour to its unappointed term:
For all the men homunculi that dance
Around us shudder at our brilliance.
These puppets perish in the good grand glare,
Our sworded sunlight in the boundless air !
These bats need cloisters; these tame birds a cage;
How should they know the Masters of the Age?
Or understand when the archangels cry
Adoring us Ellên kat' asterh ei?
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 010111111 1101010101 1101010111 11111101011 11010101001 1001010101 1011111 1101111 0111011010 1101000111 101100101 1111011101 1111010101 10110101 010111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 676 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 531 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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