Woman And War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKCLMNOPQKRSTUVWETX YZQ EA2WB2C2D2KWe women teach our little sons how wrong | A |
And how ignoble blows are school and church | B |
Support our precepts and inoculate | C |
The growing minds with thoughts of love and peace | D |
Let dogs delight to bark and bite we say | E |
But human beings with immortal souls | F |
Must rise above the methods of the brute | G |
And walk with reason and with self control | H |
- | |
And then dear God you men you wise strong men | I |
Our self announced superiors in brain | J |
Our peers in judgement you go forth to war | K |
You leap at one another mutilate | C |
And starve and kill your fellow men and ask | L |
The world s applause for such heroic deeds | M |
You boast and strut and if no song is sung | N |
No laudatory epic writ in blood | O |
Telling how many widows you have made | P |
Why then penforce you say our bards are dead | Q |
And inspiration sleeps to wake no more | K |
And we the women we whose lives you are | R |
What can we do but sit in silent homes | S |
And wait and suffer Not for us the blare | T |
Of trumpets and the bugle s call to arms | U |
For us no waving banners no supreme | V |
Triumphant hour of conquest Ours the slow | W |
Dread torture of uncertainty each day | E |
The bootless battle with the same despair | T |
And when at best your victories reach our ears | X |
There reaches with them to our pitying hearts | Y |
The thought of countless homes made desolate | Z |
And other women weeping for their dead | Q |
- | |
O men wise men superior beings say | E |
Is there no substitute for war in this | A2 |
Great age and ere If you answer No | W |
Then let us rear our children to be wolves | B2 |
And teach them from the cradle how to kill | C2 |
Why should we women take waste our time and work | D2 |
In talking peace when men declare for war | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(2)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Woman And War poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox