Labour - Capital - Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAACDAEFGHIJKLAH| IN that rich Archipelago of sea | A |
| With fiery hills thick woods wherein the mias | A |
| Browses along the trees and god like men | B |
| Leave monuments of speech too large for us | A |
| There are strange forest trees Far up their roots | A |
| Spread from the central trunk and settle down | C |
| Deep in the life fed earth seventy feet below | D |
| In the past days here grew another tree | A |
| On whose high fork the parasitic seed | E |
| Fell and sprang up and finding life and strength | F |
| In the disease decrepitude and death | G |
| Of that it fed on utterly consumed it | H |
| And stands the monument of Nature's crime | I |
| So Labour with his parasites the two | J |
| Great swollen Robbers Land and Capital | K |
| Stands to the gaze of men but as a heap | L |
| Of rotted dust whose only use must be | A |
| To rich the roots of the proud stem that killed it | H |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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