A Ballad Of Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC DAEA FGAG HIHI AJKJ LMAM NAAA AAOA APQP NRDR STAT UGDG AQVQ| Gratefully Dedicated to Mrs Pankhurst | A |
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| She bore us in her dreaming womb | B |
| And laughed into the face of Death | C |
| She laughed in her strange agony | D |
| To give her little baby breath | C |
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| Then by some holy mystery | D |
| She fed us from her sacred breast | A |
| Soothed us with little birdlike words | E |
| To rest to rest to rest to rest | A |
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| Yea softly fed us with her life | F |
| Her bosom like the world in May | G |
| Can it be true that men thus fed | A |
| Feed women as I hear them say | G |
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| Long ere we grew to girl and boy | H |
| She sewed the little things we wore | I |
| And smiled unto herself for joy | H |
| Mysterious Portress of the Door | I |
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| Shall she who bore the son of God | A |
| And made the rose of Sappho's song | J |
| She who saved France and beat the drum | K |
| Of freedom brook this vulgar wrong | J |
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| I wonder if such men as these | L |
| Had once a sister with blue eyes | M |
| Kind as the soothing hand of God | A |
| And as the quiet heaven wise | M |
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| I wonder if they ever saw | N |
| A soldier lying on a bed | A |
| On some lone battle field and watched | A |
| Some holy woman bind his head | A |
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| I wonder if they ever walked | A |
| Lost in a black and weary land | A |
| And suddenly a flower came | O |
| And took them softly by the hand | A |
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| I wonder if they ever heard | A |
| The silver scream in some grey morn | P |
| High in a lit and listening tower | Q |
| Because a man child then was born | P |
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| I wonder if they ever saw | N |
| A woman's hair or in her eye | R |
| Read the eternal mystery | D |
| Or ever saw a woman die | R |
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| I wonder when all friends had gone | S |
| The gay companions the brave men | T |
| If in some fragile girl they found | A |
| Their only stay and comrade then | T |
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| She who thus went through flaming hell | U |
| To make us put into our clay | G |
| All that there is of heaven shall she | D |
| Mother and sister wife and fay | G |
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| Have no part in the world she made | A |
| Serf of the rainbow vassal flower | Q |
| Save knitting in the afternoon | V |
| And rocking cradles hour by hour | Q |
Richard Le Gallienne
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