A Neglected “woman's Right” Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHFFIJFKEKLMKK NFNOPQNKERFEFSTUVFKE FWXG| I have listened to this cry of Woman's Rights this clamoring | A |
| for the ballot for redress for woman's wrongs and I could but | B |
| think amid it all that there is one woman's right the right | C |
| that could make the widest redress for woman's wrongs which she | D |
| holds in her own hands and does not exercise It is the right to | E |
| defend to uplift and ennoble womankind to be as lenient to a | F |
| plea for mercy from a fallen woman as though that plea had come | G |
| from the lips of a fallen man to throw around her also the broad | H |
| mantle of charity and if she would try to reform give her a | F |
| chance Far be it from any honest woman to countenance the | F |
| abandoned wretch who plies an unholy calling in defiance of all | I |
| morality for her very breath is contamination but why should | J |
| you greet with smiles and warmest handclasps of friendship the | F |
| man who pays his money for her blackened soul When two human | K |
| beings ruled by the same mysterious nature have yielded to | E |
| temptations and fallen what is this monster of social distinction | K |
| that excuses the sin of one as a folly or indiscretion while | L |
| it makes that of the other a crime which a lifetime cannot | M |
| retrieve It is a strange justice that condones the fault of one | K |
| while it condemns the other even to death that gives to one | K |
| when dead funeral rite and Christian burial and to the other | N |
| the Morgue and a dishonored grave simply because one is a | F |
| strong man and the other a weak woman And it is a stranger | N |
| sadder truth that 'tis woman's influence which metes out this | O |
| justice to woman Mother if you must look with scorn and | P |
| contempt upon the woman who through her love for some man has | Q |
| gone down to destruction do not smilingly acknowledge her | N |
| paramour a worthy suitor for your own unsullied daughter Maiden | K |
| if you must sneeringly raise your white hand and push back into | E |
| the depths of pollution the woman who seeks to reinstate herself | R |
| in the path of rectitude do not permit the man who keeps half a | F |
| dozen mistresses to clasp his arm around your waist and whirl you | E |
| away to the soft measure of the Beautiful Blue Danube If the | F |
| ban of society forbids that you say to a penitent sin sick | S |
| sister Go and sin no more if you must consign her to the life | T |
| of infamy which inevitably follows the deaf ear which you turn | U |
| upon her appeal then do it but in God's name do not turn around | V |
| and throw open the doors of your homes and welcome to the | F |
| sanctity of your family altars the man who enticed her to ruin | K |
| Ah woman by your tireless efforts you may win the right to | E |
| vote your voice may be heard in the Assembly Halls of the | F |
| Nation but if you administer as one sided a justice in political | W |
| life as you do in social life the reform for which you pray will | X |
| never come | G |
Madge Morris Wagner
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