A Glimpse Of China. In A Chair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHDH EIJI KHLH MMNM OMOM| Foo chow | A |
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| From the bright and blinding sunshine | B |
| From the whirling locust's song | C |
| Into the dark and narrow fissures | D |
| Of the streets I am borne along | C |
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| Here and there dusky beaming | E |
| A sun shaft broadens and drops | F |
| On the brown bare crowd slow passing | E |
| The crowd of the open shops | F |
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| We move on over the bridges | G |
| With their straight hewn blocks of stone | H |
| And their quaint grey animal figures | D |
| And the booths the hucksters own | H |
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| Behind a linen awning | E |
| Sits an ancient wight half dead | I |
| And a little dear of a girl is | J |
| Examining his head | I |
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| On a bended bamboo shouldered | K |
| Bearing a block of stone | H |
| Two worn out coolies half naked | L |
| Utter their grunting groan | H |
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| Children almond eyed beauties | M |
| Impossibly mangy curs | M |
| Take part in the motley stream of | N |
| Insouciant passengers | M |
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| This is the dream the vision | O |
| That comes to me and greets | M |
| The vision of Retribution | O |
| In the labyrinthine streets | M |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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