Analysis of Women's Rights
Annie Louisa Walker 1836 (Staffordshire) – 1907 (Bath, Somerset)
You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish,
Nor turn our thoughts away
From the bright picture of a "Woman's Mission"
Our hearts portray.
We claim to dwell, in quiet and seclusion,
Beneath the household roof,--
From the great world's harsh strife, and jarring voices,
To stand aloof;--
Not in a dreamy and inane abstraction
To sleep our life away,
But, gathering up the brightness of home sunshine,
To deck our way.
As humble plants by country hedgerows growing,
That treasure up the rain,
And yield in odours, ere the day's declining,
The gift again;
So let us, unobtrusive and unnoticed,
But happy none the less,
Be privileged to fill the air around us
With happiness;
To live, unknown beyond the cherished circle,
Which we can bless and aid;
To die, and not a heart that does not love us
Know where we're laid.
Scheme | XABA BCXC BAXA DXDX XXEE XFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011101110 1110101 10110101010 10101 11110100010 01011 10111101010 1101 10010001010 1110101 11001010111 11101 1101110110 110101 0101101010 0101 1110100010 110101 1101101011 1100 11010101010 111101 11010111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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