Woman's Help Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHHH HIHIHI HJHJHJ CHCHCH| Sometimes 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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