Lord, Speak Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK LLL CCC CCC MMM NNN| When God had formed the Universe He thought | A |
| Of all the marvels therein to be wrought | A |
| And to His aid then Motherhood was brought | A |
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| 'My lesser self the feminine of Me | B |
| She will go forth throughout all time ' quoth He | B |
| 'And make My world what I would have it be | B |
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| 'For I am weary having laboured so | C |
| And for a cycle of repose would go | C |
| Into that silence which but God may know | C |
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| 'Therefore I leave the rounding of My plan | D |
| To Motherhood and that which I began | D |
| Let woman finish in perfecting man | D |
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| 'She is the soil the human Mother Earth | E |
| She is the sun that calls the seed to earth | E |
| She is the gardener who knows its worth | E |
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| 'From Me all seed of any kind must spring | F |
| Divine the growth such seed and soil will bring | F |
| For all is Me and I am everything ' | - |
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| Thus having spoken to Himself aloud | G |
| His glorious face upon His breast He bowed | G |
| And sought repose behind a wall of cloud | G |
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| Come forth O God though great Thy thought and good | H |
| In shaping woman for true Motherhood | H |
| Lord speak again she has not understood | H |
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| The centuries pass the cycles roll along | I |
| The earth is peopled with a mighty throng | I |
| Yet men are fighting and the world goes wrong | I |
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| Lord speak again ere yet it be too late | J |
| Unloved unwanted souls come through earth's gate | J |
| The unborn child is given a dower of hate | J |
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| Thy world progresses in all ways save one | K |
| In Motherhood for which it was begun | K |
| Lord Lord behold how little has been done | K |
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| Children are spawned like fishes in the sand | L |
| With ignorance and crime they fill the land | L |
| Lord speak again till mothers understand | L |
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| It is not all of Motherhood to know | C |
| Conception pleasure or deliverance woe | C |
| Who plants the seed should help the shoot to grow | C |
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| Better a barren soil than weed and tare | C |
| Or sickly plants that die for want of care | C |
| In poisonous jungles void of sun and air | C |
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| True Motherhood is not alone to breed | M |
| The human race it is to know and heed | M |
| Its holiest purpose and its highest need | M |
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| Lord speak again so woman shall be stirred | N |
| With the full meaning of that mighty word | N |
| True Motherhood She has not rightly heard | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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