Two Kinds Of Intelligence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGHIJ KLMHNOG OO| There are two kinds of intelligence one acquired | A |
| as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts | B |
| from books and from what the teacher says | C |
| collecting information from the traditional sciences | D |
| as well as from the new sciences | D |
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| With such intelligence you rise in the world | E |
| You get ranked ahead or behind others | F |
| in regard to your competence in retaining | G |
| information You stroll with this intelligence | H |
| in and out of fields of knowledge getting always more | I |
| marks on your preserving tablets | J |
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| There is another kind of tablet one | K |
| already completed and preserved inside you | L |
| A spring overflowing its springbox A freshness | M |
| in the center of the chest This other intelligence | H |
| does not turn yellow or stagnate It's fluid | N |
| and it doesn't move from outside to inside | O |
| through conduits of plumbing learning | G |
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| This second knowing is a fountainhead | O |
| from within you moving out | O |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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