Florence Scovell Shinn's 4 books are classics of the New Thought movement, recently reborn as The Secret. This takes the ideas in those books, and presents them in rhyming verse. In the old days, students reduced their lessons to rhyme, and memorized them. They remembered those lessons for the rest of their lives. Paper and books were very expensive, until after WW II, in the USA. Rhyme reaches a deeper part of the brain than prose- think of your favorite song, it is easy to remember the words. The text and affirmations are all available in rhyme, in this. The wording is completely changed, so that it has meter, and rhyme. This was done so we could internalize what the author had to say, and we share it so others can, also.