A Visit From Wisdom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMNIOP QRSO TUIVWXYIZYH OA2B2OC2D2E2QYF2G2H2 I2 IJ2B2QYYB2K2L2M2L2B2 N2M2O2 P2Q2R2| In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood | A |
| By my bed She gazed upon me like a tender mother | B |
| And wiped away my tears and said 'I have heard | C |
| The cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it | D |
| Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light | E |
| Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth ' | F |
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| And I said 'Who am I Wisdom and how came | G |
| I to this frightening place What manner of things | H |
| Are these mighty hopes and these many books and | I |
| Strange patterns What are these thoughts that pass | J |
| As doves in flight And these words composed by | K |
| Desire and sung by delight what are they What are | L |
| These conclusions grievous and joyous that embrace | M |
| My spirit and envelop my heart And those | N |
| Eyes which look at me seeing into my depths and | I |
| Fleeing from my sorrows And those voices mourning | O |
| My days and chanting my littleness what are they | P |
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| 'What is this youth that plays with my desires | Q |
| And mocks at my longings forgetful of yesterday's | R |
| Deeds rejoicing in paltry things of the moment | S |
| Scornful of the morrow's coming | O |
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| 'What is this world that leads me whither I know | T |
| Not standing with me in despising And this earth | U |
| That opens wide its mouth to swallow bodies and | I |
| Lets evil things to dwell on its breast What is this | V |
| Creature that is satisfied with the love of fortune | W |
| Whilst beyond its union is the pit Who seeks Life's | X |
| Kiss whilst Death does smite him and brings the | Y |
| Pleasure of a minute with a year of repentance and | I |
| Gives himself to slumber the while dreams call him | Z |
| What is he who flows with the rivers of folly to the | Y |
| Sea of darkness O Wisdom what manner of things | H |
| Are these ' | - |
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| And she answered saying | O |
| 'You would see human creature this world | A2 |
| Through the eyes of a god And you would seek to | B2 |
| Know the secrets of the hereafter with the thinking | O |
| Of men Yet in truth is this the height of folly | C2 |
| 'Go you to the wild places and you shall find | D2 |
| There the bee above the flowers and behold the eagle | E2 |
| Swooping down on his prey Go you into your neighbor's | Q |
| House and see then the child blinking at the | Y |
| Firelight and his mother busied at her household | F2 |
| Tasks Be you like the bee and spend not the days of | G2 |
| Spring looking on the eagle's doing Be as the child | H2 |
| And rejoice in the firelight and heed not your Mother's affairs All that you see with your eyes was And is for your sake | I2 |
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| 'The many books and the strange patterns and | I |
| Beautiful thoughts are the shades of those spirits | J2 |
| That came ere you were come The words that you | B2 |
| Do weave are a bond between you and your brothers | Q |
| The conclusions grievous and joyous are the | Y |
| Seeds that the past did scatter in the field of the | Y |
| Spirit to be reaped by the future That youth who | B2 |
| Plays with your desires is he who will open the door | K2 |
| Of your heart to let enter the light This earth with | L2 |
| The ever open mouth is the savior of your spirit from | M2 |
| The body's slavery This world which walks with | L2 |
| You is your heart and your heart is all that you | B2 |
| Think that world This creature whom you see as | N2 |
| Ignorant and small is the same who has come from | M2 |
| God's side to learn pity through sadness and knowledge | O2 |
| By way of darkness ' | - |
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| Then Wisdom put her hand on my burning brow | P2 |
| And said | Q2 |
| 'Go then forward and do not tarry for beforeWwalks Perfection Go and have not fear of thorns | R2 |
| On the path for they deem naught lawful save Corrupted blood ' | - |
Khalil Gibran
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