Work For Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGHI JJKKLLMNNOOP QQRRSSTUBDDT VVOOWWDXXYYD| Woman sitting at your ease | A |
| In the midst of luxuries | A |
| Bound by chains of selfishness | B |
| With no aim but 'how to dress ' | C |
| Does the thought ne'er come to you | D |
| Of the thing that you could do | D |
| Could and yet do not | E |
| To crush out the liquor trade | F |
| That is making and has made | F |
| Sin and shame and woe and tears | G |
| In our land for years and years | H |
| Have you never thought | I |
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| You will chat for hours and hours | J |
| Over ribbons silks and flowers | J |
| But you will not talk or think | K |
| Of this growing evil drink | K |
| You will weep and smile and laugh | L |
| Over trashy books of chaff | L |
| But you will not read | M |
| Any truthful temperance tale | N |
| 'They are all so dry and stale | N |
| Just the same old thing ' you say | O |
| As you yawn and turn away | O |
| From the truths you need | P |
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| You have time for rout and ball | Q |
| Concert theatre and all | Q |
| Lectures save on this one theme | R |
| 'Oh these temperance lectures seem | R |
| So extremely dull ' you cry | S |
| With a listless air and eye | S |
| O my friend forsake | T |
| That absorbing theme of DRESS | U |
| Drop for once your selfishness | B |
| Think of all there is to do | D |
| See the work that waits for you | D |
| Up arouse awake | T |
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| There are men for you to save | V |
| From the wretched drunkard's grave | V |
| There are feet that strayed away | O |
| Into paths of sin one day | O |
| You can bring them if you will | W |
| To the paths upon the hill | W |
| There's enough to do | D |
| There's much to do and little done | X |
| Women sisters every one | X |
| Lend a helping hand nor shirk | Y |
| Any part of God's great work | Y |
| Come we've need of you | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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