Analysis of THE ETERNAL NOW
THE ETERNAL NOW
All energy is the Eternal Now The forms of energy move and mutate
The motion continuum cannot stop The Eternal Now is always in
flux The Eternal Now is reality There is no time in the Eternal
Now Humans are a part of the Eternal Now Mind is the patterns
that swirl in the brain Our senses and nerves submit to delay
Knowing the Now, motion does not allow Minds always lag the Eternal
Now Our minds only feed on what is past Delay in mind makes
thought past, you see If your mind knows it, it's history
Records are states of Now that persist Persistence is not
permanent, though It is required for us to know Records tell
stories of motions too Some are old, some are recently new The
records in the Now define the past Records come via senses quite
slow Records sometimes mutate as they flow Sense data is changed
to memories Minds process only their memories The recent past is
the minds present But the Now it really isn't Future's not real,
it does not exist We live in the present most people insist But
based on a past that does not exist All of knowledge, what we think
and see Is abstraction of reality
Scheme | X XXAXXAXBXXXXXXXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101 1100100101011100101 010010010100101110 100101110111100010 11010110010111010 1100110100101101 10011011011110010 1101101111101011 1111111111100 01111110101011 1001110101111011 1011011111110010 01001010101110101 10101111111011 11001110110001011 0110101110101011 11101110010110011 1101111011110111 011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,156 |
Words | 218 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 18 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
About this poem
This poem explains the nature of "now". It covers the concepts of past, present (the now) , and the future. It explains what our minds can use as input data.
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Written on February 12, 1998
Submitted by In2ition on July 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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