Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDDD EEFF GGGG GGHH IIJJ| With rather insincere apologies to Mr Rudyard Kipling | A |
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| I went to ask my government if they would set me free | B |
| They gave a pardoned crook a vote but hadn't one for me | B |
| The men about me laughed and frowned and said Go home because | C |
| We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws | C |
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| Oh it's women this and women that and women have no sense | D |
| But it's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense | D |
| It comes to the expense my dears it comes to the expense | D |
| It's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense | D |
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| I went into a factory to earn my daily bread | E |
| Men said The home is woman's sphere I have no home I said | E |
| But when the men all marched to war they cried to wife and maid | F |
| Oh never mind about the home but save the export trade | F |
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| For it's women this and women that and home's the place for you | G |
| But it's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do | G |
| There's outside work to do my dears there's outside work to do | G |
| It's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do | G |
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| We are not really senseless and we are not angels too | G |
| But very human beings human just as much as you | G |
| It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime | H |
| When you're treated as incompetents three quarters of the time | H |
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| But it's women this and women that and woman's like a hen | I |
| But it's do the country's work alone when war takes off the men | I |
| And it's women this and women that and everything you please | J |
| But woman is observant and be sure that woman sees | J |
Alice Duer Miller
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