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