Analysis of The Socialist And The Suffragist
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman 1860 ( Hartford, Connecticut) – 1935 (Pasadena, California)
Said the Socialist to the Suffragist:
'My cause is greater than yours!
You only work for a Special Class,
We work for the gain of the General Mass,
Which every good ensures!'
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist:
'You underrate my Cause!
While women remain a Subject Class,
You never can move the General Mass,
With your Economic Laws!'
Said the Socialist to the Suffragist:
'You misinterpret facts!
There is no room for doubt or schism
In Economic Determinism–
It governs all our acts!'
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist:
'You men will always find
That this old world will never move
More swiftly in its ancient groove
While women stay behind! '
'A lifted world lifts women up,'
The Socialist explained.
'You cannot lift the world at all
While half of it is kept so small,'
The Suffragist maintained.
The world awoke, and tartly spoke:
'Your work is all the same:
Work together or work apart,
Work, each of you, with all your heart–
Just get into the game!'
Scheme | Abccb Dxccx Aeffe Dghhg xijji xkllk |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010010100 1111011 110110101 11101101001 1100101 1010010100 100111 110010011 1101101001 110101 1010010100 100101 111111110 00100100 1101101 1010010100 11111 11111101 11001101 110101 01011101 010001 11010111 11111111 010001 01010101 111101 10101101 11111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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