Two Sonnets: Harvard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDCCDDCEFFEFE GFFGGFFGFHHFHF| At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club | A |
| February | B |
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| 'CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE ' | - |
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| To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCK | C |
| So ran the phrase the black robed conclave chose | D |
| To guard the sacred cloisters that arose | D |
| Like David's altar on Moriah's rock | C |
| Unshaken still those ancient arches mock | C |
| The ram's horn summons of the windy foes | D |
| Who stand like Joshua's army while it blows | D |
| And wait to see them toppling with the shock | C |
| Christ and the Church Their church whose narrow door | E |
| Shut out the many who if overbold | F |
| Like hunted wolves were driven from the fold | F |
| Bruised with the flails these godly zealots bore | E |
| Mindful that Israel's altar stood of old | F |
| Where echoed once Araunah's threshing floor | E |
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| 'VERITAS ' | - |
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| TRUTH So the frontlet's older legend ran | G |
| On the brief record's opening page displayed | F |
| Not yet those clear eyed scholars were afraid | F |
| Lest the fair fruit that wrought the woe of man | G |
| By far Euphrates where our sire began | G |
| His search for truth and seeking was betrayed | F |
| Might work new treason in their forest shade | F |
| Doubling the curse that brought life's shortened span | G |
| Nurse of the future daughter of the past | F |
| That stern phylactery best becomes thee now | H |
| Lift to the morning star thy marble brow | H |
| Cast thy brave truth on every warring blast | F |
| Stretch thy white hand to that forbidden bough | H |
| And let thine earliest symbol be thy last | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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