Your Pain Is.... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EDF GHI JK L MN OJ JPQER| Your pain is the breaking of the shell | A |
| that encloses your understanding | B |
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| Even as the stone of the fruit must break that its | C |
| heart may stand in the sun so must you know pain | D |
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| And could you keep your heart in wonder | E |
| at the daily miracles of your life your pain | D |
| would not seem less wondrous than your joy | F |
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| And you would accept the seasons of your | G |
| heart even as you have always accepted | H |
| the seasons that pass over your fields | I |
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| And you would watch with serenity | J |
| through the winters of your grief | K |
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| Much of your pain is self chosen | L |
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| It is the bitter potion by which the | M |
| physician within you heals your sick self | N |
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| Therefore trust the physician and drink | O |
| his remedy in silence and tranquillity | J |
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| For his hand though heavy and hard is guided | J |
| by the tender hand of the Unseen | P |
| And the cup he brings though it burn your lips | Q |
| has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter | E |
| has moistened with His own sacred tears | R |
Khalil Gibran
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