The Moon Shines In My Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC AB CDEC FG HIJKL| The moon shines in my body | A |
| but my blind eyes cannot see it | B |
| The moon is within me | A |
| and so is the sun | C |
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| The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me | A |
| but my deaf ears cannot hear it | B |
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| So long as man clamours for the 'I' and the 'Mine' | C |
| his works are as naught | D |
| When all love of the 'I' and the 'Mine' is dead | E |
| then the work of the Lord is done | C |
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| For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge | F |
| When that comes then work is put away | G |
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| The flower blooms for the fruit | H |
| when the fruit comes the flower withers | I |
| The musk is in the deer | J |
| but it seeks it not within itself | K |
| it wanders in quest of grass | L |
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