Gnothi Seauton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEG A HIJJKLMNNOOPP A MNDQRS DT DUVUWXAYZ A2B2 C2D2E2A2OF2E2G2 A C2H2I2J2E2N A CCK2 L2M2N2O2O2O2 A K2P2Q2O2K2R2L2S2T2U2 O2V2V2OOO2O2 V2 O2 W2 O2 O2O2FOV2O2V2O2V2V2V2 V2 O2K2O2O2O2O2X2QQ O2 ADADD| I | A |
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| If thou canst bear | B |
| Strong meat of simple truth | C |
| If thou durst my words compare | B |
| With what thou thinkest in my soul s free youth | C |
| Then take this fact unto thy soul | D |
| God dwells in thee | E |
| It is no metaphor nor parable | F |
| It is unknown to thousands and to thee | E |
| Yet there is God | G |
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| II | A |
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| He is in thy world | H |
| But thy world knows him not | I |
| He is the mighty Heart | J |
| From which life s varied pulses part | J |
| Clouded and shrouded there doth sit | K |
| The Infinite | L |
| Embosomed in a man | M |
| And thou art stranger to thy guest | N |
| And know st not what thou doth invest | N |
| The clouds that veil his life within | O |
| Are thy thick woven webs of sin | O |
| Which his glory struggling through | P |
| Darkens to thine evil hue | P |
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| III | A |
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| Then bear thyself O man | M |
| Up to the scale and compass of thy guest | N |
| Soul of thy soul | D |
| Be great as doth beseem | Q |
| The ambassador who bears | R |
| The royal presence where he goes | S |
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| IV | - |
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| Give up to thy soul | D |
| Let it have its way | T |
| It is I tell thee God himself | - |
| The selfsame One that rules the Whole | D |
| Tho he speaks thro thee with a stifled voice | U |
| And looks through thee shorn of his beams | V |
| But if thou listen to his voice | U |
| If thou obey the royal thought | W |
| It will grow clearer to thine ear | X |
| More glorious to thine eye | A |
| The clouds will burst that veil him now | Y |
| And thou shalt see the Lord | Z |
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| V | - |
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| Therefore be great | A2 |
| Not proud too great to be proud | B2 |
| Let not thine eyes rove | - |
| Peep not in corners let thine eyes | C2 |
| Look straight before thee as befits | D2 |
| The simplicity of Power | E2 |
| And in thy closet carry state | A2 |
| Filled with light walk therein | O |
| And as a king | F2 |
| Would do no treason to his own empire | E2 |
| So do not thou to thine | G2 |
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| VI | A |
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| This is the reason why thou dost recognize | C2 |
| Things now first revealed | H2 |
| Because in thee resides | I2 |
| The Spirit that lives in all | J2 |
| And thou canst learn the laws of nature | E2 |
| Because its author is latent in thy breast | N |
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| VII | A |
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| Therefore O happy youth | C |
| Happy if thou dost know and love this truth | C |
| Thou art unto thyself a law | K2 |
| And since the soul of things is in thee | - |
| Thou needest nothing out of thee | - |
| The law the gospel and the Providence | L2 |
| Heaven Hell the Judgement and the stores | M2 |
| Immeasurable of Truth and Good | N2 |
| All these thou must find | O2 |
| Within thy single mind | O2 |
| Or never find | O2 |
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| VIII | A |
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| Thou art the law | K2 |
| The gospel has no revelation | P2 |
| Of peace and hope until there is response | Q2 |
| From the deep chambers of thy mind thereto | O2 |
| The rest is straw | K2 |
| It can reveal no truth unknown before | R2 |
| The Providence | L2 |
| Thou art thyself that doth dispense | S2 |
| Wealth to thy work want to thy sloth | T2 |
| Glory to goodness to neglect the moth | U2 |
| Thou sow st the wind the whirlwind reapest | O2 |
| Thou payest the wages | V2 |
| Of thy own work through all ages | V2 |
| The almighty energy within | O |
| Crowneth virtue curseth sin | O |
| Virtue sees by its own light | O2 |
| Stumbleth sin in self made night | O2 |
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| IX | V2 |
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| Who approves thee doing right | O2 |
| God in thee | - |
| Who condemns thee doing wrong | W2 |
| God in thee | - |
| Who punishes thine evil deed | O2 |
| God in thee | - |
| What is thine evil meed | O2 |
| Thy worse mind with error blind | O2 |
| And more prone to evil | F |
| That is the greater hiding of the God within | O |
| The loss of peace | V2 |
| The terrible displeasure of this inmate | O2 |
| And next the consequence | V2 |
| More faintly as more distant wro t | O2 |
| Upon our outward fortunes | V2 |
| Which decay with vice | V2 |
| With Virtue rise | V2 |
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| X | V2 |
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| The selfsame God | O2 |
| By the same law | K2 |
| Makes the souls of angels glad | O2 |
| And the souls of devils sad | O2 |
| See | O2 |
| There is nothing else but God | O2 |
| Where e'er I look | X2 |
| All things hasten back to him | Q |
| Light is but his shadow dim | Q |
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| XI | O2 |
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| Shall I ask wealth or power of God who gave | A |
| An image of himself to be my soul | D |
| As well might swilling ocean ask a wave | A |
| Or the starred firmament a dying coal | D |
| For that which is in me lives in the whole | D |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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