In An East End Hovel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKKKLMKKKNKO PGIQRKSTUPG| To a Workman a would be Suicide | A |
| - | |
| MAN of despair and death | B |
| Bought and slaved in the gangs | C |
| Starved and stripped and left | D |
| To the pitiful pitiless night | E |
| Away with your selfish thoughts | F |
| Touch not your ignorant life | G |
| Are there no masters of slaves | H |
| Jeering cynical strong | I |
| Are there no brigands say | J |
| With the words of Christ on their lips | K |
| And the daggers under their cloaks | K |
| Is there not one of these | K |
| That you can steal on and kill | L |
| O as the Swiss mountaineer | M |
| Dogged on the perilous heights | K |
| His disciplined conqueror foes | K |
| Caught up one in his arms | K |
| And laughing exultantly | N |
| Plunged with him to the abyss | K |
| So let it be with you | O |
| An eye for an eye and a tooth | P |
| For a tooth and a life for a life | G |
| Tell it this hateful strong | I |
| Contemptuous hypocrite World | Q |
| Tell it that if we must live | R |
| As dogs and as worse than dogs | K |
| At least we can die like men | S |
| Tell it there is a woe | T |
| Not for the conquered alone | U |
| An eye for an eye and a tooth | P |
| For a tooth and a life for a life | G |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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