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The qualities and the human faculties to which they are linked naturally respond to this ordered progression. Although each stanza appears in virtual isolation, the poet's evolving thought creates an impression of movement between them. Patricia Topliss analyses a similar tendency in the works of Pascal, himself a master of brilliant aphoristic expression:

[Pascal's] attention-not surprisingly, perhaps, in so skilled a geometer-goes far more readily to shapes and outlines, and he excels not so much in painting minute details as in sketching salient features: the reader's imagination is not shackled by an excess of precision, it is encouraged to stretch itself freely. It is not the visual effect of Pascal's images that is most striking: it is their suggestive power. [19]

In another poem by Sri Chinmoy, there is a simultaneous suggestion of spiritual and artistic evolution:

THE DANCE OF LIFE

Doubt
Is the prose of the mind.

Faith
Is the poetry of the heart.

Aspiration
Is the song of the soul.

Realisation
Is the dance of life.[ 20]