The Superwoman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCBB DEEFFGG HHIII JKKLL MBBMII NOPQ KRRK STUTU VWXY

What will the superwoman be of whom we singA
She who is coming over the dim borderB
Of Far To morrow after earth's disorderB
Is tidied up by Time What will she bringA
To make life better on tempestuous earthC
How will her worthC
Be greater than her forbears What new powerB
Within her being will burst into flowerB
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She will bring beauty not the transient dowerD
Of adolescence which departs with youthE
But beauty based on knowledge of the truthE
Of its eternal message and the sourceF
Of all its potent forceF
Her outer being by the inner thoughtG
Shall into lasting loveliness be wroughtG
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She will bring virtue but it will not beH
The pale white blossom of cold chastityH
Which hides a barren heart She will be humanI
Not saint or angel but the superwomanI
Mother and mate and friend of supermanI
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She will bring strength to aid the larger PlanJ
Wisdom and strength and sweetness all combinedK
Drawn from the Cosmic MindK
Wisdom to act strength to attainL
And sweetness that finds growth in joy or painL
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She will bring that large virtue self controlM
And cherish it as her supremest treasureB
Not at the call of sense or for man's pleasureB
Will she invite from space an embryo soulM
To live on earth again in mortal fashionI
Unless love stirs her with divinest passionI
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To motherhood she will bring common senseN
That most uncommon virtue She will giveO
Love that is more than she wolf violenceP
Which slaughters others that its own may liveQ
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Love that will help each little tendril mindK
To grow and climbR
Love that will know the lordliest use of TimeR
In training human egos to be kindK
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She will be formed to guide but not to leadS
Leaders are ever lonely and her sphereT
Will be that of the comrade and the mateU
Loved loving and with insight fine and clearT
Which casts its searchlight on the course of fateU
And to the leaders says 'Proceed' or 'Wait '-
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And best of all she will bring holy faithV
To penetrate the shadowy world of deathW
And show the road beyond it bright and broadX
That leads straight up to GodY

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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