What Is Christ? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDEFFED AGHHGGHHGIBJJBI| I | A |
| OH what is Christ that we should call on Him | B |
| Wasted Armenia in her utter woe | C |
| Dies in the mocking desert calling so | C |
| Hy nas tear her children limb from limb | B |
| The clouds soft dimpled once with cherubim | B |
| Now screen the flight of Lucifers that strow | C |
| Their fiery seed where clustered households know | C |
| 'Twixt sleep and death one flaring interim | B |
| Of agony brief as the broken prayer | D |
| What prayer What Christ Himself He could not save | E |
| From first to last when hath He saved His own | F |
| Stephen's young body battered stone by stone | F |
| Edith Cavell in her most holy grave | E |
| For His helpless host of martyrs witness bear | D |
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| II | A |
| Thought casts the challenge Faith must lift the glove | G |
| Most true it is Christ doth not save the flesh | H |
| God's dreamy Nazarene caught in the mesh | H |
| Of ignorance and malice whitest dove | G |
| Net ever snared took little care thereof | G |
| Not His to plead with Pilate nor to thresh | H |
| Those priestly lies He died to live afresh | H |
| Spirit not body not the Jew but Love | G |
| Love the one Light in which all lusters meet | I |
| Ultimate miracle far goal of Time | B |
| Even to day when all seems lost they feel | J |
| Those nations that like hooded sorrows kneel | J |
| Their prayer's deep answer loathing war as crime | B |
| Longing to gather at Love's wounded feet | I |
Katharine Lee Bates
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