Analysis of Egyptian Theosophy
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Far in the introspective East
A meditative Memphian Priest
Would solve--such is the Sage's curse--
The riddle of the Universe.
Thought, turning round itself, revolved,
How was this puzzling World evolved?
How came the starry sky to be,
The sun, the earth, the Nile, the sea?
And Man, most tragi-comic Man,
Whence came he here, and where began?
Communing with the baffling sky,
Who twinkled, but made no reply,
He brooded, till his heated brain
Grew fairly addled with the strain.
For in that dim, benighted age
Philosopher and hoary sage
Had not yet had the saving grace
To teach the Schools that Time and Space,
And all the marvels they contain,
Are but the phantoms of the brain.
But that profound Egyptian Seer
Maybe--who knows?--came pretty near;
When, after days of strenuous fast,
He hit the startling truth at last;
And on select, mysterious nights,
Veiled in occult, symbolic rites:
He taught--that once upon a time--
To disbelieve it were a crime--
The World's great egg--refute who can,
That meditates on Life and Man--
While deafening cacklings spread the news--
Was laid by an Almighty Goose.
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1000101 010011 11110101 0101010 11010101 111100101 11010111 01010101 0111101 11110101 010101001 11011101 11011101 11010101 10110101 01000101 11110101 11011101 01010101 11010101 11010101 10111101 110111001 11010111 010101001 10010101 11110101 10011001 01110111 111101 11001101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,112 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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