Analysis of Fear of death
Terry Teza 1966 (Yangon)
It is the greatest fear
That is known.
We don't know what it is,
Thus, it is the fear of unknown.
For one who seek the Truth,
Ego has to die
before the body die.
Before he enter
the formless infinite ,
the ego tremble in fear.
For all that he's known
are slipping away
Like sand through the fingers.
But it is not possible to go back,
for he has peeled the layers of personality like an onion and
Realized there is no 'I' in the centre.
What he has realized,
He can't make it unrealized.
With the leap of faith in the Lord,
Let the self drop
into the abyss that await.
For one has to lose oneself,
To be the awaken Self.
Thou shall not fear through the valley of the shadow of death.
Go, Go and Go beyond, transcend to the Awakening of Truth!
Scheme | ABXB CDDEXABXX XXE FF XXXGG XC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101 111 111111 11101101 111101 10111 010101 01110 01100 0101001 11111 11001 111010 1111100111 11110101010011100 1011110010 11110 1111010 10111001 1011 01001101 111111 1100101 1111101010111 1101010110010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 3, 2, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem is about spiritual awakening through the death of ego.
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Submitted on April 30, 2024
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