Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF DGDG HDDD AIDI| Women have no wilderness in them | A |
| They are provident instead | B |
| Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts | C |
| To eat dusty bread | B |
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| They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass | D |
| They do not hear | E |
| Snow water going down under culverts | D |
| Shallow and clear | F |
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| They wait when they should turn to journeys | D |
| They stiffen when they should bend | G |
| They use against themselves that benevolence | D |
| To which no man is friend | G |
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| They cannot think of so many crops to a field | H |
| Or of clean wood cleft by an axe | D |
| Their love is an eager meaninglessness | D |
| Too tense or too lax | D |
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| They hear in every whisper that speaks to them | A |
| A shout and a cry | I |
| As like as not when they take life over their door sills | D |
| They should let it go by | I |
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Louise Bogan
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