Extracts From A Medical Poem - The Stability Of Science Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGG HHIIJJKKLLEEMMNNOO| The feeble sea birds blinded in the storms | A |
| On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms | A |
| And the rude granite scatters for their pains | B |
| Those small deposits that were meant for brains | B |
| Yet the proud fabric in the morning's sun | C |
| Stands all unconscious of the mischief done | C |
| Still the red beacon pours its evening rays | D |
| For the lost pilot with as full a blaze | D |
| Nay shines all radiance o'er the scattered fleet | E |
| Of gulls and boobies brainless at its feet | E |
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| I tell their fate though courtesy disclaims | F |
| To call our kind by such ungentle names | F |
| Yet if your rashness bid you vainly dare | G |
| Think of their doom ye simple and beware | G |
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| See where aloft its hoary forehead rears | H |
| The towering pride of twice a thousand years | H |
| Far far below the vast incumbent pile | I |
| Sleeps the gray rock from art's AEgean isle | I |
| Its massive courses circling as they rise | J |
| Swell from the waves to mingle with the skies | J |
| There every quarry lends its marble spoil | K |
| And clustering ages blend their common toil | K |
| The Greek the Roman reared its ancient walls | L |
| The silent Arab arched its mystic halls | L |
| In that fair niche by countless billows laved | E |
| Trace the deep lines that Sydenham engraved | E |
| On yon broad front that breasts the changing swell | M |
| Mark where the ponderous sledge of Hunter fell | M |
| By that square buttress look where Louis stands | N |
| The stone yet warm from his uplifted hands | N |
| And say O Science shall thy life blood freeze | O |
| When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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