The Well-born Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCCCEFFCCGCBCHHI FICCCJFCCFFFFFKEBCBF LGFG| So many people people in the world | A |
| So few great souls love ordered well begun | B |
| In answer to the fertile mother need | C |
| So few who seem | D |
| The image of the Maker's mortal dream | D |
| So many born of mere propinquity | C |
| Of lustful habit or of accident | C |
| Their mothers felt | C |
| No mighty all compelling wish to see | E |
| Their bosoms garden places | F |
| Abloom with flower faces | F |
| No tidal wave swept o'er them with its flood | C |
| No thrill of flesh or heart no leap of blood | C |
| No glowing fire flaming to white desire | G |
| For mating and for motherhood | C |
| Yet they bore children | B |
| God how mankind misuses Thy command | C |
| To populate the earth | H |
| How low is brought high birth | H |
| How low the woman when inert as spawn | I |
| Left on the sands to fertilise | F |
| She is the means through which the race goes on | I |
| Not so the first intent | C |
| Birth as the Supreme Mind conceived it meant | C |
| The clear imperious call of mate to mate | C |
| And the clear answer Only thus and then | J |
| Are fine well ordered and potential lives | F |
| Brought into being Not by Church or State | C |
| Can birth be made legitimate | C |
| Unless | F |
| Love in its fulness bless | F |
| Creation so ordains its lofty laws | F |
| That man while greater in all other things | F |
| Is lesser in the generative cause | F |
| The father may be merely man the male | K |
| Yet more than female must the mother be | E |
| The woman who would fashion | B |
| Souls for the use of earth and angels meet | C |
| Must entertain a high and holy passion | B |
| Not rank or wealth or influence of kings | F |
| Can give a soul its dower | L |
| Of majesty and power | G |
| Unless the mother brings | F |
| Great love to that great hour | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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