A Glimpse Of China Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDDCBDBAEFBGDGCD CDDBDBCHDHIBJBDDKDBD BDAJLDBDDBJBLEMNBNBE DEDMJMJOBOBDBDBJPJPJ BJBCDCQ| I | A |
| In a Sampan | B |
| Min River Fo Kien | B |
| Up in the misty morning | C |
| Up past the gardened hills | D |
| With the rhythmic stroke of the rowers | D |
| While the blue deep pales and thrills | D |
| Past the rice fields green low lying | C |
| Where the sea gull's winging down | B |
| From the fleets of junks and sampans | D |
| And the ancient Chinese Town | B |
| II | A |
| In a Chair | E |
| Foo cbow | F |
| From the bright and blinding sunshine | B |
| From the whirling locust's song | G |
| Into the dark and narrow fissures | D |
| Of the streets I am borne along | G |
| Here and there dusky beaming | C |
| A sun shaft broadens and drops | D |
| On the brown bare crowd slow passing | C |
| The crowd of the open shops | D |
| We move on over the bridges | D |
| With their straight hewn blocks of stone | B |
| And their quaint grey animal figures | D |
| And the booths the hucksters own | B |
| Behind a linen awning | C |
| Sits an ancient wight half dead | H |
| And a little dear of a girl is | D |
| Examining his head | H |
| On a bended bamboo shouldered | I |
| Bearing a block of stone | B |
| Two worn out Coolies half naked | J |
| Utter their grunting groan | B |
| Children almond eyed beauties | D |
| Impossibly mangy curs | D |
| Take part in the motley stream of | K |
| Insouciant passengers | D |
| This is the Dream the Vision | B |
| That comes to me and greets | D |
| The Vision of Retribution | B |
| In the labyrinthine streets | D |
| III | A |
| 'Caste' | J |
| These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve | L |
| And they obey and yet they are not slaves | D |
| It is the 'free born' fuddled Englishmen | B |
| Who grovel rotting in their living graves | D |
| These Chinese do not fawn with servile lips | D |
| They lift up equal eyes that ask and scan | B |
| Their degradation has escaped at least | J |
| That choicest curse of all the Gentleman | B |
| IV | L |
| Over the Samovar | E |
| Foo chow | M |
| 'Yes I used always to think | N |
| That you Russians knew | B |
| How to make the good drink | N |
| As none others do | B |
| 'And I thought moreover | E |
| Not with the epicures | D |
| You might search the world over | E |
| For such Women as yours | D |
| 'In both these matters now | M |
| I perceive I was right | J |
| And I really can't tell you how | M |
| Much I delight | J |
| 'In my third Thanks another cup | O |
| Idea of the fun | B |
| When your Country gets up | O |
| And follows the sun | B |
| 'And just as in Europe see | D |
| There's a Conqueror Nation | B |
| So why not in Asia be | D |
| A like jubilation | B |
| 'Taught as well as organized | J |
| The eternal Coolie | P |
| From being robbed and despised | J |
| Takes to cutting throats duly | P |
| 'But please don't be flurried | J |
| For I daresay by then | B |
| You'll be comfortably buried | J |
| Ladies and gentlemen | B |
| 'No more thanks I must be going | C |
| I'm so glad to have made this | D |
| Opportunity of knowing | C |
| Some more Russian ladies ' | Q |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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