Knowing What To Know Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBDBBBBEFBGBBHIB BJKLLMBL NIOPBBHQRBBBSBBBBBSB BB TUBBVBBWBBBBBBBB| What I think I know is not | A |
| What I know | B |
| I assume I know much more than | C |
| What I know | B |
| I do not know | B |
| What I do not know | B |
| As what I know reveals | D |
| What I need to know | B |
| The trouble is to know | B |
| What I do know | B |
| And to know what I do not know | B |
| This makes me humiliated | E |
| For I have been quarreling with authenticity | F |
| That I know | B |
| And what I know is correct | G |
| To know what we know | B |
| And to know what we do not know | B |
| Is real knowledge | H |
| Said the philosopher | I |
| I know he did not know | B |
| What one needs to know | B |
| Knowing one thing becomes | J |
| A known thing the moment | K |
| One thinks of knowing | L |
| And some thing of that thing | L |
| Is not known | M |
| So I do not know | B |
| Of that something | L |
| - | |
| This means | N |
| One can infer | I |
| I do not know is the truth | O |
| Then arises the billion dollar question | P |
| What one has to know | B |
| As the known thing expands every moment you know | B |
| Just to know is not even knowledge | H |
| Leave alone wisdom | Q |
| The question now arises | R |
| How can I know | B |
| What I do not know | B |
| And what I can not know | B |
| Sometimes I do not know that | S |
| Because I can not know | B |
| If I do know | B |
| What I can not know | B |
| Then I know | B |
| What I do not know | B |
| i e I know that thing that | S |
| I do not know | B |
| Then how can I say I know | B |
| About the thing I do not know | B |
| - | |
| Can I say | T |
| I know something about | U |
| Everything of what I know | B |
| And What I do not know | B |
| Now | V |
| Do you know | B |
| What I know | B |
| And | W |
| What I do not know | B |
| I know | B |
| You do not know | B |
| What I know | B |
| And I do not know | B |
| Because you do not know | B |
| What you know | B |
| And what you do not know | B |
Ramanujam Meganathan
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 09/30/2025
Poet's note: This is another passing thought about what we know, what we do not know and what we think we know and what we do not know.
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