Analysis of Discredited



Three million women without mates
In lonely homes on earth!
And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates,
Where many a spirit ego waits
Its call again to birth.

Three million women, meant to be
The mothers of the race!
But when war reaps on land and sea
Its harvests for Eternity,
Poor Hymen hides his face.

I think Earth has discredited
Itself in God's good sight:
He does not care to have souls bred,
Where peace, and love, and joy are fled,
Until we set things right.

He meant earth for a Garden Spot
Where spirits could return,
And build new heavens as they ought;
And now behold! what men have wrought
By deeds that blight and burn.

So, vain the waiting egos quest
For pathways back to birth:
And vain the longing and unrest
In many a cheated mother breast.
God does not like the earth!

It must be cleansed and purified
Of selfishness and strife,
Of grasping greed and lust and pride,
Before He lets His Angels guide
The egos back to life.


Scheme ABAAB CDCCD XEFFE XGHHG IBIIB JKJJK
Poetic Form Etheree  (27%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11010011 010111 01011101 110010101 110111 11010111 010101 11111101 11010100 110111 11110100 010111 11111111 11010111 011111 11110101 110101 01110111 01011111 111101 11010101 11111 01010001 010010101 111101 1111010 110001 11010101 01111101 010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 912
Words 176
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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