Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFDFD GHGHIJIJ KLK HMHM NDNDOHOH PQPQRSRT UHVHWJWJ XDXDYMZA2| Strange are the ways that her feet have trod | A |
| Since first she was set in the path of duty | B |
| Finished and fair by the hand of God | A |
| To carry her message of love and beauty | B |
| Delicate creature of light and shade | C |
| She gleamed like an opal on wide worlds under | D |
| And earth looked up to her half afraid | C |
| While heaven looked down at her full of wonder | D |
| - | |
| Flame of the comet and mist of the moon | E |
| And ray of the sun all mingled in her | D |
| And the heart of her asked but a single boon | E |
| That love should seek her and find her and win her | D |
| She grasped the scope of the First Intent | F |
| That made her kingdom FOR HER no other | D |
| And joyfully into her place she went | F |
| The primal mate and the primal mother | D |
| - | |
| Large was that kingdom and vast her sphere | G |
| And lightly she lifted and bore each burden | H |
| Lightly she laughed in the eyes of fear | G |
| For love was her recompense love her guerdon | H |
| And never in camp or in cave or in home | I |
| Rose voice of mother or mate complaining | J |
| And never the foot of her sought to roam | I |
| Till love in the heart of the man seemed waning | J |
| - | |
| In the broad rich furrows by woman turned | K |
| Man unwitting set plough and harrow | L |
| For worlds to conquer she had not yearned | K |
| Till he spoke of her feminine sphere as 'narrow ' | - |
| The lullaby changed to a martial strain | H |
| When he took her travail and song for granted | M |
| And forth she forged in his own domain | H |
| Till the strange 'new woman ' the old supplanted | M |
| - | |
| 'Strange' with the glow of a wakened soul | N |
| And 'new' with the purpose of large endeavour | D |
| She turned her face to the higher goal | N |
| To the higher goal it is turned for ever | D |
| Trade and science and craft and art | O |
| Have opened their doors to the call of woman | H |
| And greater she grows in her greater part | O |
| More tenderly wise and more sweetly human | H |
| - | |
| Brave foremothers of freedom's birth | P |
| Smile through space on your splendid daughters | Q |
| At one with liberty lighting the earth | P |
| Their torches flame o'er the darkest waters | Q |
| They lend a lustre to sea and land | R |
| They sweeten the world with their wholesome graces | S |
| As out in the harbour of life they stand | R |
| To cheer and welcome the coming races | T |
| - | |
| Brave forefathers and heroes who fought | U |
| Under the flag of the Revolution | H |
| War was the price of the freedom you bought | V |
| But PEACE is the watchword of Evolution | H |
| The progress of woman means progress of peace | W |
| She wars on war and its hosts alarming | J |
| And her great love battle will never cease | W |
| Till the glory is seen of a world disarming | J |
| - | |
| The woman wonder with heart of flame | X |
| The coming man of the race will find her | D |
| For petty purpose and narrow aim | X |
| And fault and flaw she will leave behind her | D |
| He grown tender and she grown wise | Y |
| They shall enter the Eden by both created | M |
| The broadened kingdom of Paradise | Z |
| And love and mate as the first pair mated | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Woman poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox