Honor To Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB CDCDBEBEAAFGGF CHCHCDCD DDIBJI CACACDCD JJJCCJ JKJKCFCF LLMCCM| Honor to woman To her it is given | A |
| To garden the earth with the roses of heaven | A |
| All blessed she linketh the loves in their choir | B |
| In the veil of the graces her beauty concealing | C |
| She tends on each altar that's hallowed to feeling | C |
| And keeps ever living the fire | B |
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| From the bounds of truth careering | C |
| Man's strong spirit wildly sweeps | D |
| With each hasty impulse veering | C |
| Down to passion's troubled deeps | D |
| And his heart contented never | B |
| Greeds to grapple with the far | E |
| Chasing his own dream forever | B |
| On through many a distant star | E |
| But woman with looks that can charm and enchain | A |
| Lureth back at her beck the wild truant again | A |
| By the spell of her presence beguiled | F |
| In the home of the mother her modest abode | G |
| And modest the manners by Nature bestowed | G |
| On Nature's most exquisite child | F |
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| Bruised and worn but fiercely breasting | C |
| Foe to foe the angry strife | H |
| Man the wild one never resting | C |
| Roams along the troubled life | H |
| What he planneth still pursuing | C |
| Vainly as the Hydra bleeds | D |
| Crest the severed crest renewing | C |
| Wish to withered wish succeeds | D |
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| But woman at peace with all being reposes | D |
| And seeks from the moment to gather the roses | D |
| Whose sweets to her culture belong | I |
| Ah richer than he though his soul reigneth o'er | B |
| The mighty dominion of genius and lore | J |
| And the infinite circle of song | I |
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| Strong and proud and self depending | C |
| Man's cold bosom beats alone | A |
| Heart with heart divinely blending | C |
| In the love that gods have known | A |
| Soul's sweet interchange of feeling | C |
| Melting tears he never knows | D |
| Each hard sense the hard one steeling | C |
| Arms against a world of foes | D |
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| Alive as the wind harp how lightly soever | J |
| If wooed by the zephyr to music will quiver | J |
| Is woman to hope and to fear | J |
| All tender one still at the shadow of grieving | C |
| How quiver the chords how thy bosom is heaving | C |
| How trembles thy glance through the tear | J |
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| Man's dominion war and labor | J |
| Might to right the statue gave | K |
| Laws are in the Scythian's sabre | J |
| Where the Mede reigned see the slave | K |
| Peace and meekness grimly routing | C |
| Prowls the war lust rude and wild | F |
| Eris rages hoarsely shouting | C |
| Where the vanished graces smiled | F |
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| But woman the soft one persuasively prayeth | L |
| Of the life that she charmeth the sceptre she swayeth | L |
| She lulls as she looks from above | M |
| The discord whose bell for its victims is gaping | C |
| And blending awhile the forever escaping | C |
| Whispers hate to the image of love | M |
Friedrich Schiller
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