Mother's Day Proclamation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIDDC JKLMHNOPNQRSMTUDVWEX S| Arise then women of this day | A |
| Arise all women who have hearts | B |
| Whether your baptism be of water or of tears | C |
| Say firmly | D |
| We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies | E |
| Our husbands will not come to us reeking with carnage | F |
| For caresses and applause | G |
| Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn | H |
| All that we have been able to teach them of charity mercy and patience | I |
| We the women of one country | D |
| Will be too tender of those of another country | D |
| To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs | C |
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| From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with | J |
| Our own It says Disarm Disarm | K |
| The sword of murder is not the balance of justice | L |
| Blood does not wipe our dishonor | M |
| Nor violence indicate possession | H |
| As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil | N |
| At the summons of war | O |
| Let women now leave all that may be left of home | P |
| For a great and earnest day of counsel | N |
| Let them meet first as women to bewail and commemorate the dead | Q |
| Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means | R |
| Whereby the great human family can live in peace | S |
| Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress not of Caesar | M |
| But of God | T |
| In the name of womanhood and humanity I earnestly ask | U |
| That a general congress of women without limit of nationality | D |
| May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient | V |
| And the earliest period consistent with its objects | W |
| To promote the alliance of the different nationalities | E |
| The amicable settlement of international questions | X |
| The great and general interests of peace | S |
Julia Ward Howe
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