Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F E G| Whatever a man pray for he prays for a miracle Every prayer reduces to this 'Great God grant that twice two be not four ' | A |
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| Only such a prayer is a real prayer from person to person To pray to the Cosmic Spirit to the Higher Being to the Kantian Hegelian quintessential formless God is impossible and unthinkable | B |
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| But can even a personal living imaged God make twice two not be four | C |
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| Every believer is bound to answer he can and is bound to persuade himself of it | D |
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| But if reason sets him revolting against this senselessness | E |
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| Then Shakespeare comes to his aid 'There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio ' etc | F |
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| And if they set about confuting him in the name of truth he has but to repeat the famous question 'What is truth ' And so let us drink and be merry and say our prayers | E |
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| July | G |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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