Are Women People? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEFEDGDG DHIHAJAJ DAKADDJD DLKLDMAM| A Consistent Anti to Her Son | A |
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| Look at the hazards the risks the physical dangers that ladies would | B |
| be exposed to at the polls Anti suffrage speech | C |
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| You're twenty one to day Willie | D |
| And a danger lurks at the door | E |
| I've known about it always | F |
| But I never spoke before | E |
| When you were only a baby | D |
| It seemed so very remote | G |
| But you're twenty one to day Willie | D |
| And old enough to vote | G |
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| You must not go to the polls Willie | D |
| Never go to the polls | H |
| They're dark and dreadful places | I |
| Where many lose their souls | H |
| They smirch degrade and coarsen | A |
| Terrible things they do | J |
| To quiet elderly women | A |
| What would they do to you | J |
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| If you've a boyish fancy | D |
| For any measure or man | A |
| Tell me and I'll tell Father | K |
| He'll vote for it if he can | A |
| He casts my vote and Louisa's | D |
| And Sarah and dear Aunt Clo | D |
| Wouldn't you let him vote for you | J |
| Father who loves you so | D |
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| I've guarded you always Willie | D |
| Body and soul from harm | L |
| I'll guard your faith and honor | K |
| Your innocence and charm | L |
| From the polls and their evil spirits | D |
| Politics rum and pelf | M |
| Do you think I'd send my only son | A |
| Where I would not go myself | M |
Alice Duer Miller
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