Why We Oppose Pockets For Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC C DE FG HE IJ KLM| Because pockets are not a natural right | A |
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| Because the great majority of women do not want pockets If they did | B |
| they would have them | C |
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| Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them | C |
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| Because women are required to carry enough things as it is without | D |
| the additional burden of pockets | E |
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| Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose | F |
| pockets were to be filled | G |
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| Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman if he did not | H |
| have to carry all her things in his pockets | E |
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| Because men are men and women are women We must not fly in the face | I |
| of nature | J |
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| Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco pipes | K |
| whiskey flasks chewing gum and compromising letters We see no reason | L |
| to suppose that women would use them more wisely | M |
Alice Duer Miller
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