The Song Of The Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECE AFAGHH CCCCEE EEEEAA IEJEEE KEKEEE EEEELE| How shall she know the worship we would do her | A |
| The walls are high and she is very far | B |
| How shall the woman's message reach unto her | A |
| Above the tumult of the packed bazaar | B |
| Free wind of March against the lattice blowing | C |
| Bear thou our thanks lest she depart unknowing | C |
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| Go forth across the fields we may not roam in | D |
| Go forth beyond the trees that rim the city | E |
| To whatsoe'er fair place she hath her home in | D |
| Who dowered us with walth of love and pity | E |
| Out of our shadow pass and seek her singing | C |
| quot I have no gifts but Love alone for bringing quot | E |
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| Say that we be a feeble folk who greet her | A |
| But old in grief and very wise in tears | F |
| Say that we being desolate entreat her | A |
| That she forget us not in after years | G |
| For we have seen the light and it were grievous | H |
| To dim that dawning if our lady leave us | H |
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| By life that ebbed with none to stanch the failing | C |
| By Love's sad harvest garnered in the spring | C |
| When Love in ignorance wept unavailing | C |
| O'er young buds dead before their blossoming | C |
| By all the grey owl watched the pale moon viewed | E |
| In past grim years declare our gratitude | E |
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| By hands uplifted to the Gods that heard not | E |
| By fits that found no favor in their sight | E |
| By faces bent above the babe that stirred not | E |
| By nameless horrors of the stifling night | E |
| By ills foredone by peace her toils discover | A |
| Bid Earth be good beneath and Heaven above her | A |
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| If she have sent her servants in our pain | I |
| If she have fought with Death and dulled his sword | E |
| If she have given back our sick again | J |
| And to the breast the wakling lips restored | E |
| Is it a little thing that she has wrought | E |
| Then Life and Death and Motherhood be nought | E |
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| Go forth O wind our message on thy wings | K |
| And they shall hear thee pass and bid thee speed | E |
| In reed roofed hut or white walled home of kings | K |
| Who have been helpen by ther in their need | E |
| All spring shall give thee fragrance and the wheat | E |
| Shall be a tasselled floorcloth to thy feet | E |
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| Haste for our hearts are with thee take no rest | E |
| Loud voiced ambassador from sea to sea | E |
| Proclaim the blessing mainfold confessed | E |
| Of those in darkness by her hand set free | E |
| Then very softly to her presence move | L |
| And whisper quot Lady lo they know and love quot | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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