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