To What Shore Would You Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG H IJ KLMNOPBHQ| To what shore would you cross | A |
| O my heart | B |
| there is no traveller before you | C |
| there is no road | D |
| Where is the movement | E |
| where is the rest | F |
| on that shore | G |
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| There is no water no boat no boatman is there | H |
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| There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat nor a man to draw it | I |
| No earth no sky no time no thing is there no shore no ford | J |
| - | |
| There there is neither body nor mind | K |
| and where is the place that shall still the thirst of the soul | L |
| You shall find naught in that emptiness | M |
| Be strong and enter into your own body | N |
| for there your foothold is firm | O |
| Consider it well | P |
| O my heart | B |
| go not elsewhere | H |
| Kab r says 'Put all imaginations away | Q |
| and stand fast in that which you are ' | - |
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