Analysis of The Hidden Code: Exploring the Mysteries of Afterlife
Amidst the murk of mortal dread I pace,
And ponder on the riddle of the dead,
And wonder if there truly is a place
Beyond the void where all our souls are led.
The tales of heaven, hell, and purgatory
Are but inventions of our fickle minds,
Imagined as a soothing category
For our fear of what we leave behind.
For life is but a fleeting spark of flame,
A flicker in the infinite abyss,
And death the curtain that will end the game,
And leave us lost in mute oblivion's kiss.
So let us not cling to the hope of heaven,
Nor fear the fiery depths of hell's damnation,
For both are merely fantasies woven
By human need for transcendental sensation.
And yet, I feel a whisper in my soul,
A voice that tells me there is something more,
A hint of transcendence that could make me whole,
And give me reason to endure and soar.
Perhaps it is the echo of some dream,
Some ancient memory of a former life,
Or maybe just the flicker of a gleam
That comes from deeper levels of my strife.
For every culture has its myths and tales
Of afterlife and ways to reach the divine,
From Egyptian rites to Christian veils,
From Hindu yogis to Norseman's wine.
And though I cannot claim to know the truth,
I sense there is a wisdom in these tales,
A hidden code that offers us a proof
Of deeper secrets that the cosmos hails.
For life and death are but two sides of a coin,
A dance of yin and yang that never ends,
And every step we take, we must rejoin
The primal force that all creation bends.
So let us not despair when we must go,
Nor cling to what we think we know as real,
For death is but the seed that we must sow,
To grow anew, and know a higher deal.
And in that realm beyond our mortal ken,
We'll find the answers to the cosmic quest,
And know that life and death are just a ten
In the grand symphony of the eternal rest.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FFFF GHGH IJIJ KLKL XKXK MNMN XOXO PQPQ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (91%) |
Metre | 0101110111 0101010101 0101110101 01011110111 0111010100 11010110101 0101010100 1101111101 1111010111 0100010001 0101011101 01110111 11111101110 110100111010 1111010010 11011010010 0111010011 0111111101 01101011111 0111010101 0111010111 11010010101 1101010101 1111010111 11001011101 1100111001 101011101 111111 0111011101 1111010011 0101110101 1101010101 11011111101 0111011101 01001111101 0101110101 1111011111 1111111111 1111011111 1101010101 00110110101 1101010101 0111011101 001100100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,820 |
Words | 399 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
The poem is a meditation on the nature of life, death, and the afterlife. The speaker ponders on the riddle of the dead and wonders if there is a place beyond the void where all souls are led. The speaker reflects on the tales of heaven, hell, and purgatory and argues that they are just inventions of the human mind, meant to soothe the fear of death. However, the speaker feels a whisper in the soul, a hint of transcendence that makes them believe in something more. The speaker acknowledges that every culture has its myths and tales of the afterlife and senses a wisdom in them. The speaker argues that life and death are just two sides of a coin and that death is just a seed to be sown to grow anew in a higher realm beyond human understanding. In conclusion, the speaker believes that life and death are just a part of the grand symphony of the eternal rest. more »
Written on November 23, 2018
Submitted by Mawphniang.Napoleon on February 19, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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