What Governments Say To Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFGHEIG J IIKLMIKL| The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of | A |
| her husband | B |
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| I | - |
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| In Time of War | C |
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| Help us Your country needs you | D |
| Show that you love her | E |
| Give her your men to fight | F |
| Ay even to fall | G |
| The fair free land of your birth | H |
| Set nothing above her | E |
| Not husband nor son | I |
| She must come first of all | G |
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| II | - |
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| In Time of Peace | J |
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| What's this You've wed an alien | I |
| Yet you ask for legislation | I |
| To guard your nationality | K |
| We're shocked at your demand | L |
| A woman when she marries | M |
| Takes her husband's name and nation | I |
| She should love her husband only | K |
| What's a woman's native land | L |
Alice Duer Miller
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