The Higher Pantheism In A Nutshell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD CC EE FF GG HH II JJ II KK LL| One who is not we see but one whom we see not is | A |
| Surely this is not that but that is assuredly this | B |
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| What and wherefore and whence for under is over and under | C |
| If thunder could be without lightning lightning could be without thunder | C |
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| Doubt is faith in the main but faith on the whole is doubt | D |
| We cannot believe by proof but could we believe without | D |
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| Why and whither and how for barley and rye are not clover | C |
| Neither are straight lines curves yet over is under and over | C |
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| Two and two may be four but four and four are not eight | E |
| Fate and God may be twain but God is the same thing as fate | E |
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| Ask a man what he thinks and get from a man what he feels | F |
| God once caught in the fact shows you a fair pair of heels | F |
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| Body and spirit are twins God only knows which is which | G |
| The soul squats down in the flesh like a tinker drunk in a ditch | G |
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| More is the whole than a part but half is more than the whole | H |
| Clearly the soul is the body but is not the body the soul | H |
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| One and two are not one but one and nothing is two | I |
| Truth can hardly be false if falsehood cannot be true | I |
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| Once the mastodon was pterodactyls were common as cocks | J |
| Then the mammoth was God now is He a prize ox | J |
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| Parallels all things are yet many of these are askew | I |
| You are certainly I but certainly I am not you | I |
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| Springs the rock from the plain shoots the stream from the rock | K |
| Cocks exist for the hen but hens exist for the cock | K |
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| God whom we see not is and God who is not we see | L |
| Fiddle we know is diddle and diddle we take it is dee | L |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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