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A sequence of satirical and lyrical poems confronts anti‑suffrage arguments by transforming speeches, household scenes, and public rhetoric into ironic verse. The pieces employ parody, persona, and domestic comedy to expose contradictions in claims about women's nature, proper roles, and fitness for political life. Several poems imagine family conversations, legislative speeches, and workplace injustices to illustrate legal and economic exclusions that accompany denied franchise. Humor alternates with indignation, and formal variety—sonnets, ballads, masque-like sketches and short epigrams—keeps the tone energetic while repeatedly urging enfranchisement and equal civic recognition.
Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
“Women, subject yourselves to men.”
Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
“They rule the world without the vote.”
By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
“When all the women wanted it.”
By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
He said that it was bound to come.
This year I heard him say with pride:
“No reasons on the other side!”
By Nineteen-Fifteen, he’ll insist
He’s always been a suffragist.
And what is really stranger, too,
He’ll think that what he says is true.