The Philosophers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADE AFG HIJ ACK HLM HCL HNO HNM HAP HQL AAR HIR AHR SLT RUR EUV IHE OWX| PUPIL | A |
| I am rejoiced worthy sirs to find you in pleno assembled | B |
| For I have come down below seeking the one needful thing | C |
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| ARISTOTLE | A |
| Quick to the point my good friend For the Jena Gazette comes to hand here | D |
| Even in hell so we know all that is passing above | E |
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| PUPIL | A |
| So much the better So give me I will not depart hence without it | F |
| Some good principle now one that will always avail | G |
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| FIRST PHILOSOPHER | H |
| Cogito ergo sum I have thought and therefore existence | I |
| If the first be but true then is the second one sure | J |
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| PUPIL | A |
| As I think I exist 'Tis good But who always is thinking | C |
| Oft I've existed e'en when I have been thinking of naught | K |
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| SECOND PHILOSOPHER | H |
| Since there are things that exist a thing of all things there must needs be | L |
| In the thing of all things dabble we just as we are | M |
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| THIRD PHILOSOPHER | H |
| Just the reverse say I Besides myself there is nothing | C |
| Everything else that there is is but a bubble to me | L |
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| FOURTH PHILOSOPHER | H |
| Two kinds of things I allow to exist the world and the spirit | N |
| Naught of others I know even these signify one | O |
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| FIFTH PHILOSOPHER | H |
| I know naught of the thing and know still less of the spirit | N |
| Both but appear unto me yet no appearance they are | M |
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| SIXTH PHILOSOPHER | H |
| I am I and settle myself and if I then settle | A |
| Nothing to be well and good there's a nonentity formed | P |
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| SEVENTH PHILOSOPHER | H |
| There is conception at least A thing conceived there is therefore | Q |
| And a conceiver as well which with conception make three | L |
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| PUPIL | A |
| All this nonsense good sirs won't answer my purpose a tittle | A |
| I a real principle need one by which something is fixed | R |
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| EIGHTH PHILOSOPHER | H |
| Nothing is now to be found in the theoretical province | I |
| Practical principles hold such as thou canst for thou shouldst | R |
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| PUPIL | A |
| If I but thought so When people know no more sensible answer | H |
| Into the conscience at once plunge they with desperate haste | R |
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| DAVID HUME | S |
| Don't converse with those fellows That Kant has turned them all crazy | L |
| Speak to me for in hell I am the same that I was | T |
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| LAW POINT | R |
| I have made use of my nose for years together to smell with | U |
| Have I a right to my nose that can be legally proved | R |
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| PUFFENDORF | E |
| Truly a delicate point Yet the first possession appeareth | U |
| In thy favor to tell therefore make use of it still | V |
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| SCRUPLE OF CONSCIENCE | I |
| Willingly serve I my friends but alas I do it with pleasure | H |
| Therefore I often am vexed that no true virtue I have | E |
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| DECISION | O |
| As there is no other means thou hadst better begin to despise them | W |
| And with aversion then do that which thy duty commands | X |
Friedrich Schiller
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