The Spinster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHD IJKALMKNIIKOPQKRSITJ A IIUUVVWWDDAAXX A DKKD YKKY PKKP DKKD DKKD| I | A |
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| Here are the orchard trees all large with fruit | B |
| And yonder fields are golden with young grain | C |
| In little journeys branchward from the nest | D |
| A mother bird with sweet insistent cries | E |
| Urges her young to use their untried wings | F |
| A purring Tabby stretched upon the sward | G |
| Shuts and expands her velvet paws in joy | H |
| While sturdy kittens nuzzle at her breast | D |
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| O mighty Maker of the Universe | I |
| Am I not part and parcel of Thy World | J |
| And one with Nature Wherefore then in me | K |
| Must this great reproductive impulse lie | A |
| Hidden ashamed unnourished and denied | L |
| Until it starves to slow and tortuous death | M |
| I knew the hope of spring time like the tree | K |
| Now ripe with fruit I budded and then bloomed | N |
| We laughed together through the young May morns | I |
| We dreamed together through the summer moons | I |
| Till all Thy purposes within the tree | K |
| Were to fruition brought Lord Thou hast heard | O |
| The Woman in me crying for the Man | P |
| The Mother in me crying for the Child | Q |
| And made no answer Am I less to Thee | K |
| Than lover forms of Nature or in truth | R |
| Dost Thou hold Somewhere in another Realm | S |
| Full compensation and large recompense | I |
| For lonely virtue forced by fate to live | T |
| A life unnatural in a natural world | J |
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| II | A |
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| Thou who hast made for such sure purposes | I |
| The mightiest and the meanest thing that is | I |
| Planned out the lives of insects of the air | U |
| With fine precision and consummate care | U |
| Thou who hast taught the bee the secret power | V |
| Of carrying on love's laws 'twixt flower and flower | V |
| Why didst Thou shape this mortal frame of mine | W |
| If Heavenly joys alone were Thy design | W |
| Wherefore the wonder of my woman's breast | D |
| By lips of lover and of babe unpressed | D |
| If spirit children only shall reply | A |
| Unto my ever urgent mother cry | A |
| Why should the rose be guided to its own | X |
| And my love craving heart beat on alone | X |
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| III | A |
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| Yet do I understand for Thou hast made | D |
| Something more subtle than this heart of me | K |
| A finer part of me | K |
| To be obeyed | D |
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| Albeit I am a sister to the earth | Y |
| This nature self is not the whole of me | K |
| The deathless soul of me | K |
| Has nobler birth | Y |
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| The primal woman hungers for the man | P |
| My better self demands the mate of me | K |
| The spirit fate of me | K |
| Part of Thy plan | P |
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| Nature is instinct with the mother need | D |
| So is my heart but ah the child of me | K |
| Should undefiled of me | K |
| Spring from love's seed | D |
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| And if in barren chastity I must | D |
| Know but in dreams that perfect choice of me | K |
| Still will the voice of me | K |
| Proclaim God just | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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