Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DDD EEE| O well have we done the old tasks in the old old ways of earth | A |
| We have kept the house in order we have given the children birth | A |
| And our sons went out with their fathers and left us alone at the hearth | B |
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| We have cooked the meats for their table we have woven their cloth at the loom | C |
| We have pulled the weeds from their gardens and kept the flowers in bloom | C |
| And then we have sat and waited alone in a silent room | C |
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| We have borne all the pains of travail in giving life to the race | D |
| We have toiled and saved for the masters and helped them to power and place | D |
| And when we asked for a pittance they gave it with grudging grace | D |
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| On the bold bright face of the dollar all the evils of earth are shown | E |
| We are weary of love that is barter and of virtue that pines alone | E |
| We are out in the world with the masters we are finding and claiming our own | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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