Discredited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFGGF HIJJI KBKKB LMLLM| Three million women without mates | A |
| In lonely homes on earth | B |
| And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates | A |
| Where many a spirit ego waits | A |
| Its call again to birth | B |
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| Three million women meant to be | C |
| The mothers of the race | D |
| But when war reaps on land and sea | C |
| Its harvests for Eternity | C |
| Poor Hymen hides his face | D |
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| I think Earth has discredited | E |
| Itself in God's good sight | F |
| He does not care to have souls bred | G |
| Where peace and love and joy are fled | G |
| Until we set things right | F |
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| He meant earth for a Garden Spot | H |
| Where spirits could return | I |
| And build new heavens as they ought | J |
| And now behold what men have wrought | J |
| By deeds that blight and burn | I |
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| So vain the waiting egos quest | K |
| For pathways back to birth | B |
| And vain the longing and unrest | K |
| In many a cheated mother breast | K |
| God does not like the earth | B |
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| It must be cleansed and purified | L |
| Of selfishness and strife | M |
| Of grasping greed and lust and pride | L |
| Before He lets His Angels guide | L |
| The egos back to life | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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