The Superwoman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCBB DEEFFGG HHIII JKKLL MBBMII NOPQ KRRK STUTU VWXYWhat 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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