Chapter 72

           Fifteenthousandfeetintheair,RobertLangdonfeltthephysicalworldfadeawayasallofhisthoughtsconvergedonSaunière’smirror-imagepoem,whichwasilluminatedthroughthelidofthebox.

           

           Sophiequicklyfoundsomepaperandcopieditdownlonghand.Whenshewasdone,thethreeofthemtookturnsreadingthetext.Itwaslikesomekindofarchaeologicalcrossword…ariddlethatpromisedtorevealhowtoopenthecryptex.Langdonreadtheverseslowly.

           Anancientwordofwisdomfreesthisscroll…andhelpsuskeepherscatter’dfamilywhole…aheadstonepraisedbytemplarsisthekey…andatbashwillrevealthetruthtothee.

           BeforeLangdoncouldevenponderwhatancientpasswordtheversewastryingtoreveal,hefeltsomethingfarmorefundamentalresonatewithinhimthemeterofthepoem.Iambicpentameter.

           LangdonhadcomeacrossthismeteroftenovertheyearswhileresearchingsecretsocietiesacrossEurope,includingjustlastyearintheVaticanSecretArchives.Forcenturies,iambicpentameterhadbeenapreferredpoeticmeterofoutspokenliteratiacrosstheglobe,fromtheancientGreekwriterArchilochustoShakespeare,Milton,Chaucer,andVoltaireboldsoulswhochosetowritetheirsocialcommentariesinameterthatmanyofthedaybelievedhadmysticalproperties.Therootsofiambicpentameterweredeeplypagan.

           Iambs.Twosyllableswithoppositeemphasis.Stressedandunstressed.Yinyang.Abalancedpair.Arrangedinstringsoffive.Pentameter.FiveforthepentacleofVenusandthesacredfeminine.

           «It’spentameter!»Teabingblurted,turningtoLangdon.

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