The Guest Is Inside You, And Also Inside Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKLHKM NKF OPEQR| The Guest is inside you and also inside me | A |
| you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed | B |
| We are all struggling none of us has gone far | C |
| Let your arrogance go and look around inside | D |
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| The blue sky opens out further and farther | E |
| the daily sense of failure goes away | F |
| the damage I have done to myself fades | G |
| a million suns come forward with light | H |
| when I sit firmly in that world | I |
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| I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken | J |
| inside 'love' there is more joy than we know of | K |
| rain pours down although the sky is clear of clouds | L |
| there are whole rivers of light | H |
| The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love | K |
| How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies | M |
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| Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail | N |
| The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love | K |
| With the word 'reason' you already feel miles away | F |
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| How lucky Kabir is that surrounded by all this joy | O |
| he sings inside his own little boat | P |
| His poems amount to one soul meeting another | E |
| These songs are about forgetting dying and loss | Q |
| They rise above both coming in and going out | R |
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