Theory Of Truth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHI JKLMNOPQR SITUVWAXYZBA2IB2IC2D 2E2 HF2LQG2GQAH2I2J2G2 F2BK2F2TL2M2K2N2 J2O2| Reference to The Women at Point Sur | A |
| I stand near Soberanes Creek on the knoll over the sea west of | B |
| the road I remember | A |
| This is the very place where Arthur Barclay a priest in revolt | C |
| proposed three questions to himself | D |
| First is there a God and of what nature Second whether there's | E |
| anything after we die but worm's meat | F |
| Third how should men live Large time worn questions no | G |
| doubt yet he touched his answers they are not unattainable | H |
| But presently lost them again in the glimmer of insanity | I |
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| How | J |
| many minds have worn these questions old coins | K |
| Rubbed faceless dateless The most have despaired and accepted | L |
| doctrine the greatest have achieved answers but always | M |
| With aching strands of insanity in them | N |
| I think of Lao tze and the dear beauty of the Jew whom they | O |
| crucified but he lived he was greater than Rome | P |
| And godless Buddha under the boh tree straining through his | Q |
| mind the delusions and miseries of human life | R |
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| Why does insanity always twist the great answers | S |
| Because only | I |
| tormented persons want truth | T |
| Man is an animal like other animals wants food and success and | U |
| women not truth Only if the mind | V |
| Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness | W |
| then it hates its life cage and seeks further | A |
| And finds if it is powerful enough But instantly the private | X |
| agony that made the search | Y |
| Muddles the finding | Z |
| Here was a man who envied the chiefs of | B |
| the provinces of China their power and pride | A2 |
| And envied Confucius his fame for wisdom Tortured by hardly | I |
| conscious envy he hunted the truth of things | B2 |
| Caught it and stained it through with his private impurity He | I |
| praised inaction silence vacancy why | C2 |
| Because the princes and officers were full of business and wise | D2 |
| Confucius of words | E2 |
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| Here was a man who was born a bastard and among the people | H |
| That more than any in the world valued race purity chastity the | F2 |
| prophetic splendors of the race of David | L |
| Oh intolerable wound dimly perceived Too loving to curse his | Q |
| mother desert driven devil haunted | G2 |
| The beautiful young poet found truth in the desert but found also | G |
| Fantastic solution of hopeless anguish The carpenter was not his | Q |
| father Because God was his father | A |
| Not a man sinning but the pure holiness and power of God | H2 |
| His personal anguish and insane solution | I2 |
| Have stained an age nearly two thousand years are one vast poem | J2 |
| drunk with the wine of his blood | G2 |
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| And here was another Saviour a prince in India | F2 |
| A man who loved and pitied with such intense comprehension of | B |
| pain that he was willing to annihilate | K2 |
| Nature and the earth and stars life and mankind to annul the | F2 |
| suffering He also sought and found truth | T |
| And mixed it with his private impurity the pity the denials | L2 |
| Then | M2 |
| search for truth is foredoomed and frustrate | K2 |
| Only stained fragments | N2 |
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| Until the mind has turned its love from | J2 |
| itself and man from parts to the whole | O2 |
Robinson Jeffers
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