To Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.d., The Hero Of A Recent Work Called Paradoxical Philosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDDDFGHHH GGHIIHGGHHIII GGHHHHIIDDJJJ| A paradoxical ode after Shelley | A |
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| My soul is an entangled knot | B |
| Upon a liquid vortex wrought | C |
| By Intellect in the Unseen residing | D |
| And thine cloth like a convict sit | E |
| With marlinspike untwisting it | E |
| Only to find its knottiness abiding | D |
| Since all the tools for its untying | D |
| In four dimensioned space are lying | D |
| Wherein thy fancy intersperses | F |
| Long avenues of universes | G |
| While Klein and Clifford fill the void | H |
| With one finite unbounded homaloid | H |
| And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed | H |
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| But when thy Science lifts her pinions | G |
| In Speculation s wild dominions | G |
| We treasure every dictum thou emittest | H |
| While down the stream of Evolution | I |
| We drift expecting no solution | I |
| But that of the survival of the fittest | H |
| Till in the twilight of the gods | G |
| When earth and sun are frozen clods | G |
| When all its energy degraded | H |
| Matter to ther shall have faded | H |
| We that is all the work we ve done | I |
| As waves in ther shall for ever run | I |
| In ever widening spheres through heavens beyond the sun | I |
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| Great Principle of all we see | G |
| Unending Continuity | G |
| By thee are all our angles sweetly rounded | H |
| By thee are our misfits adjusted | H |
| And as I still in thee have trusted | H |
| So trusting let me never be confounded | H |
| Oh never may direct Creation | I |
| Break in upon my contemplation | I |
| Still may thy causal chain ascending | D |
| Appear unbroken and unending | D |
| While Residents in the Unseen | J |
| ons and Emanations intervene | J |
| And from my shrinking soul the Unconditioned screen | J |
James Clerk Maxwell
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