Analysis of The Big Picture (2002)



O my Light, where are You?
I seek Your intensity once more,
Your great white brightness,
Your predominance of essential truth,
Your sanctity of enlightenment.

You are the eternal flame.
Only You, with Your might
persevered through the darkness.
Your dominion, Your strength, to which I bowed down.
You are the true One, the only One I  shall follow.

May Your particles of radiance course through my body
and reach my psyche.
May You fire my central neuron
and impart upon me the spark of life.
May I smile again.

May Your wish be to grant my heart
the will to continue to beat,
and allow the substance of the living to flow in my blood and pulsate through my veins,
and to permit the rays from our star to reach my nucleus.

I resign myself to Your glory and command always.
You appeared in me and breathed vigor into my soul,
and I give boundless thanks.  You are my master,
of all names and in all tongues of past and present.

You touched the very essence of my core
and have shown me the truth and source of our life force, permitting me to quench my acute thirst from Your spring.
I dedicate my being to Your exalted glory,
Your eminent power.

Your dynamism is my very substance.
You became me,
and I am a shard of your abundant vessel of all existence.  With eyes closed I begin to feel Your warmth,
drawing vitality from your bosom.

Basking in Your eternal wisdom
I invite all humankind of all forms,
believers  or not,
to follow Your awe-inspiring presence
with conviction and merriment.

I believe in Your touch,
Your unity,
Your energy,
Your compassion,
Your strength,
Your honesty,
and Your love.

Submitting, submitting, submitting for now and for ever.
You are my faith.
Your energy is my permanence shining in me.
You have found me again, we are one,

and I smile once more . . .
because we will never go below again to purgatory
but always searching for a new door
and there will never be again such a Heavenly story.


Scheme XABXC XXBDX EEDXX XXXB XXFC AXEF GEXH HXXGC XEEIXEX FXEI AEAE
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111010011 11110 1010010101 110010100 1100101 101111 011010 10101111111 1101101011110 11100110011110 01110 11101101 0010110111 11101 11111111 01101011 00101010101101101111 0101011101111100 101111100011 1010101100111 01110111110 111001111010 1101010111 01110101110110101111011111 1101101101010 110010 1100111010 1011 011011101010110101111011111 1001001110 100101010 101110111 01011 1101101010 101001 101011 1100 1100 1010 11 1100 011 010010010110110 1111 1100111001001 111101111 01111 011110101011100 11101011 011101011010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,877
Words 349
Sentences 27
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7, 4, 4
Lines Amount 51
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on April 21, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Doug Hall

Even though I was given a Brit Milah (Jewish circumcision) 8 days after I was born in the USA I have never known my Hebrew name. I have created various ones including Ephraim ben Uri and Achael ben Uriel. If anyone knows my Hebrew name from August 1968 in Massachusetts please let me know... more…

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