A Father Of Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEDE CFCF GHDH IJIJ CKCK LCLC MNMN| AD SOROREM E B | A |
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| Thy father was transfused into thy blood | B |
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| Dryden Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew | C |
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| Our father works in us | D |
| The daughters of his manhood Not undone | E |
| Is he not wasted though transmuted thus | D |
| And though he left no son | E |
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| Therefore on him I cry | C |
| To arm me For my delicate mind a casque | F |
| A breastplate for my heart courage to die | C |
| Of thee captain I ask | F |
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| Nor strengthen only press | G |
| A finger on this violent blood and pale | H |
| Over this rash will let thy tenderness | D |
| A while pause and prevail | H |
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| And shepherd father thou | I |
| Whose staff folded my thoughts before my birth | J |
| Control them now I am of earth and now | I |
| Thou art no more of earth | J |
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| O liberal constant dear | C |
| Crush in my nature the ungenerous art | K |
| Of the inferior set me high and here | C |
| Here garner up thy heart | K |
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| Like to him now are they | L |
| The million living fathers of the War | C |
| Mourning the crippled world the bitter day | L |
| Whose striplings are no more | C |
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| The crippled world Come then | M |
| Fathers of women with your honour in trust | N |
| Approve accept know them daughters of men | M |
| Now that your sons are dust | N |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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