Woman And War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKCLMNOPQKRSTUVWETX YZQ EA2WB2C2D2K

We women teach our little sons how wrongA
And how ignoble blows are school and churchB
Support our precepts and inoculateC
The growing minds with thoughts of love and peaceD
Let dogs delight to bark and bite we sayE
But human beings with immortal soulsF
Must rise above the methods of the bruteG
And walk with reason and with self controlH
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And then dear God you men you wise strong menI
Our self announced superiors in brainJ
Our peers in judgement you go forth to warK
You leap at one another mutilateC
And starve and kill your fellow men and askL
The world s applause for such heroic deedsM
You boast and strut and if no song is sungN
No laudatory epic writ in bloodO
Telling how many widows you have madeP
Why then penforce you say our bards are deadQ
And inspiration sleeps to wake no moreK
And we the women we whose lives you areR
What can we do but sit in silent homesS
And wait and suffer Not for us the blareT
Of trumpets and the bugle s call to armsU
For us no waving banners no supremeV
Triumphant hour of conquest Ours the slowW
Dread torture of uncertainty each dayE
The bootless battle with the same despairT
And when at best your victories reach our earsX
There reaches with them to our pitying heartsY
The thought of countless homes made desolateZ
And other women weeping for their deadQ
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O men wise men superior beings sayE
Is there no substitute for war in thisA2
Great age and ere If you answer NoW
Then let us rear our children to be wolvesB2
And teach them from the cradle how to killC2
Why should we women take waste our time and workD2
In talking peace when men declare for warK

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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