Woman's Help Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHHH HIHIHI HJHJHJ CHCHCHSometimes I long to write an ode | A |
And magnify his name | B |
The man of honor on the road | A |
To opulence and fame | B |
On whom was never aid bestowed | A |
By any helpful dame | B |
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To all the world I fain would show | C |
That talent widely known | D |
Rare eloquence of burning glow | C |
To melt a heart of stone | D |
That all his gifts a dazzling row | C |
Are his and his alone | D |
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But him of character and mind | E |
Superb alert and strong | F |
I never study but to find | E |
The subject of my song | F |
Some paragon of womankind | E |
Has helped him all along | F |
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He may not know he may not guess | G |
How much to her he owes | H |
How every scion of success | G |
That in his nature grows | H |
Developed by her watchfulness | H |
Becomes a blooming rose | H |
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From buffetings in humble place | H |
And labors ill begun | I |
To proud achievement in the race | H |
And laurels grandly won | I |
His trials all she dares to face | H |
As friend and champion | I |
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The bars that hinder his advance | H |
And half obscure the goal | J |
The stubborn bond of circumstance | H |
That irritates his soul | J |
The countershafts of arrogance | H |
All yield to her control | J |
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He builds a tower she below | C |
Is handing up the bricks | H |
His light is brilliant just as though | C |
Her hand had trimmed the wicks | H |
He prays for daily bread the dough | C |
A woman deigns to mix | H |
Hattie Howard
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