Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F F G DB AD H HBecause no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote | A |
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Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties | B |
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Because it will make dissension between husband and wife | C |
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Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to | D |
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Because bad women will corrupt politics | E |
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Because bad politics will corrupt women | F |
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Because women have no power of organization | F |
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Because women will form a solid party and outvote men | G |
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Because men and women are so different that they must stick to | D |
different duties | B |
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Because men and women are so much alike that men with one vote | A |
each can represent their own views and ours too | D |
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Because women cannot use force | H |
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Because the militants did use force | H |
Alice Duer Miller
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