Woman And War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKCLMNOPQKRSTUVWETX YZQ EA2WB2C2D2K| We 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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