Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC AADD EFGG DDHH AB| Listen If but women were | A |
| Half as kind as they are fair | B |
| There would be an end to all | C |
| Miseries that do appal | C |
| - | |
| Cloud and wind would fly together | A |
| In a dance of sunny weather | A |
| And the happy trees would throw | D |
| Gifts to travellers below | D |
| - | |
| Then the lion meek and mild | E |
| With the lamb would side by side | F |
| Couch him friendly and would be | G |
| Innocent of enmity | G |
| - | |
| Then the Frozen Pole would go | D |
| Shaking off his fields of snow | D |
| To a kinder clime and dance | H |
| Warmly with the girls of France | H |
| - | |
| These if women only were | A |
| Half as kind as they are fair | B |
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