Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B C D E F F F G B H F I B B J B B F K L F B F F F M B B B N F B J B F F B B B B F J B O K B F F B C P Q B J B F F B F F J B B B F M J B B B F R B S B B K I F F T U| For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect | A |
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| For there be twelve cardinal virtues three to the East Greatness Valour Piety | B |
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| For there be three to the West Goodness Purity and Sublimity | B |
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| For there be three to the North Meditation Happiness Strength | C |
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| For there be three to the South Constancy Pleasantry and Wisdom | D |
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| For the Argument A PRIORI is GOD in every man's CONSCIENCE | E |
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| For the Argument A POSTERIORI is God before every man's eyes | F |
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| For the Four and Twenty Elders of the Revelation are Four and Twenty Eternities | F |
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| For their Four and Twenty Crowns are their respective Consummations | F |
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| For a CHARACTER is the votes of the Worldlings but the seal is of Almighty GOD alone | G |
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| For there is no musick in flats and sharps which are not in God's natural key | B |
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| For where Accusation takes the place of encouragement a man of Genius is driven to act the vices of a fool | H |
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| For the Devil can set a house on fire when the inhabitants find combustibles | F |
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| For the old account of time is the true Decr th | I |
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| For Faith as a grain of mustard seed is to believe as I do that an Eternity is such in respect to the power and magnitude of Almighty God | B |
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| For a DREAM is a good thing from GOD | B |
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| For there is a dream from the adversary which is terror | J |
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| For the phenomenon of dreaming is not of one solution but many | B |
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| For Eternity is like a grain of mustard as a growing body and improving spirit | B |
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| For the malignancy of fire is oweing to the Devil's hiding of light till it became visible darkness | F |
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| For the Circle may be SQUARED by swelling and flattening | K |
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| For the Life of God is in the body of man and his spirit in the Soul | L |
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| For there was no rain in Paradise because of the delicate construction of the spiritual herbs and flowers | F |
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| For the Planet Mercury is the WORD DISCERNMENT | B |
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| For the Scotchman seeks for truth at the bottom of a well the Englishman in the Heavn of Heavens | F |
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| For the Planet Venus is the WORD PRUDENCE or providence | F |
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| For GOD nevertheless is an extravagant BEING and generous unto loss | F |
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| For there is no profit in the generation of man and the loss of millions is not worth God's tear | M |
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| For this is the twelfth day of the MILLENNIUM of the MILLENNIUM foretold by the prophets give the glory to God ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY | B |
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| For the Planet Mars is the word FORTITUDE | B |
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| For to worship naked in the Rain is the bravest thing for the refreshing and purifying the body | B |
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| For the Planet Jupiter is the WORD DISPENSATION | N |
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| For Tully says to be generous you must be first just but the voice of Christ is distribute at all events | F |
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| For Kittim is the father of the Pygmies God be gracious to Pigg his family | B |
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| For the Soul is divisible and a portion of the Spirit may be cut off from one and applied to another | J |
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| For NEW BREAD is the most wholesome especially if it be leaven'd with honey | B |
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| For a NEW SONG also is best if it be to the glory of God and taken with the food like the psalms | F |
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| For the Planet Saturn is the word TEMPERANCE or PATIENCE | F |
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| For Jacob's Ladder are the steps of the Earth graduated hence to Paradice and thence to the throne of God | B |
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| For a good wish is well but a faithful prayer is an eternal benefit | B |
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| For SPICA VIRGINIS is the star that appeared to the wise men in the East and directed their way before it was yet insphered | B |
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| For an IDEA is the mental vision of an object | B |
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| For Lock supposes that an human creature at a given time may be an atheist i e without God by the folly of his doctrine concerning innate ideas | F |
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| For it is not lawful to sell poyson in England any more than it is in Venice the Lord restrain both the finder and receiver | J |
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| For the ACCENTS are the invention of the Moabites who learning the GREEK tongue marked the words after their own vicious pronuntiation | B |
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| For the GAULS the now French and original Moabites after they were subdued by C sar became such Grecians at Rome | O |
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| For the Gaullic manuscripts fell into the hands of the inventors of printing | K |
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| For all the inventions of man which are good are the communications of Almighty God | B |
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| For all the stars have satellites which are terms under their respective words | F |
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| For tiger is a word and his satellites are Griffin Storgis Cat and others | F |
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| For my talent is to give an Impression upon words by punching that when the reader casts his eye upon 'em he takes up the image from the mould which I have made | B |
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| For JOB was the son of Issachar and patience is the child of strength | C |
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| For the Names of the DAYS as they now stand are foolish and abominable | P |
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| For the Days are the First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh | Q |
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| For the names of the months are false the Hebrew appellatives are of God | B |
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| For the Time of the Lord's temptation was in early youth and imminent danger | J |
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| For an equivocal generation is a generation and no generation | B |
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| For putrifying matter nevertheless will yield up its life in diverse creatures and combinations of creatures | F |
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| For a TOAD can dwell in the centre of a stone because there are stones whose constituent life is of those creatures | F |
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| For a Toad hath by means of his eye the most beautiful prospects of any other animal to make him amends for his distance from his Creator in Glory | B |
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| For FAT is the fruit of benevolence therefore it was the Lord's in the Mosaic sacrifices | F |
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| For the very particular laws of Moses are the determinations of CASES that fell under his cognizance | F |
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| For the Devil can make the shadow thicker by candlelight by reason of his pow'r over malignant fire | J |
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| For the Romans clipped their words in the Augustan thro idleness and effeminacy and paid foreign actors for speaking them out | B |
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| For when the weight and the pow'r are equivalent the prop is of none effect | B |
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| For shaving of the beard was an invention of the people of Sodom to make men look like women | B |
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| For the ends of the world are the accomplishment of great events and the consummation of periods | F |
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| For ignorance is a sin because illumination is to be obtained by prayer | M |
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| For Preferment is not from the East West or South but from the North where Satan has most power | J |
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| For the ministers of the Devil set the hewer of wood over the head of God's free Man | B |
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| For this inverting God's good order edifice and edification and appointing place where the Lord has not appointed | B |
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| For the Ethiopian question is already solved in that the Blacks are the children of Cain | B |
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| For the phenomenon of the horizontal moon is the truth she appears bigger in the horizon because she actually is so | F |
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| For it was said of old 'can the Ethiopian change his skin ' the Lord has answered the question by his merit and death he shall | R |
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| For the moon is magnified in the horizon by Almighty God and so is the Sun | B |
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| For she has done her day's work and the blessing of God upon her and she communicates with the earth | S |
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| For when she rises she has been strength'ned by the Sun who cherishes her by night | B |
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| For man is born to trouble in the body as the sparks fly upwards in the spirit | B |
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| For man is between the pinchers while his soul is shaping and purifying | K |
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| For the ENGLISH are the seed of Abraham and work up to him by Joab David and Naphtali God be gracious to us this day General Fast March th | I |
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| For the Romans and the English are one people the children of the brave man who died at the altar praying for his posterity whose death was the type of our Saviour's | F |
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| For the WELCH are the children of Mephibosheth and Ziba with a mixture of David in the Jones's | F |
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| For the Scotch are the children of Doeg with a mixture of Cush the Benjamite whence their innate antipathy to the English | T |
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| For the IRISH are the children of Shimei and Cush with a mixture of something lower the Lord raise them | U |
Christopher Smart
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