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 sing | A |
| She who is coming over the dim border | B |
| Of Far To morrow after earth's disorder | B |
| Is tidied up by Time What will she bring | A |
| To make life better on tempestuous earth | C |
| How will her worth | C |
| Be greater than her forbears What new power | B |
| Within her being will burst into flower | B |
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| She will bring beauty not the transient dower | D |
| Of adolescence which departs with youth | E |
| But beauty based on knowledge of the truth | E |
| Of its eternal message and the source | F |
| Of all its potent force | F |
| Her outer being by the inner thought | G |
| Shall into lasting loveliness be wrought | G |
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| She will bring virtue but it will not be | H |
| The pale white blossom of cold chastity | H |
| Which hides a barren heart She will be human | I |
| Not saint or angel but the superwoman | I |
| Mother and mate and friend of superman | I |
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| She will bring strength to aid the larger Plan | J |
| Wisdom and strength and sweetness all combined | K |
| Drawn from the Cosmic Mind | K |
| Wisdom to act strength to attain | L |
| And sweetness that finds growth in joy or pain | L |
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| She will bring that large virtue self control | M |
| And cherish it as her supremest treasure | B |
| Not at the call of sense or for man's pleasure | B |
| Will she invite from space an embryo soul | M |
| To live on earth again in mortal fashion | I |
| Unless love stirs her with divinest passion | I |
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| To motherhood she will bring common sense | N |
| That most uncommon virtue She will give | O |
| Love that is more than she wolf violence | P |
| Which slaughters others that its own may live | Q |
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| Love that will help each little tendril mind | K |
| To grow and climb | R |
| Love that will know the lordliest use of Time | R |
| In training human egos to be kind | K |
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| She will be formed to guide but not to lead | S |
| Leaders are ever lonely and her sphere | T |
| Will be that of the comrade and the mate | U |
| Loved loving and with insight fine and clear | T |
| Which casts its searchlight on the course of fate | U |
| And to the leaders says 'Proceed' or 'Wait ' | - |
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| And best of all she will bring holy faith | V |
| To penetrate the shadowy world of death | W |
| And show the road beyond it bright and broad | X |
| That leads straight up to God | Y |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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