New Guinea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEEFGBHIJKLMNON PQRSTUTNNVBV| I SAW them as they were born | A |
| Erect and fearless and free | B |
| Facing the sun and the wind | C |
| Of the hills and the sea | B |
| I saw them naked superb | D |
| Like the Greeks long ago | E |
| With shield and spear and arrow | E |
| Ready to strike and throw | E |
| I saw them as they were made | F |
| By the Christianizing crows | G |
| Blinking stupid clumsy | B |
| In their greasy ill cut clothes | H |
| I heard their gibbering cant | I |
| And they sung those hymns that smell | J |
| Of poor souls besotted degraded | K |
| With the fear of 'God' and 'Hell ' | L |
| And I thought if Jesus could see them | M |
| He who loved the freedom the light | N |
| And loathed those who compassed heaven | O |
| And earth for one proselyte | N |
| To make him etcetera etcetera | P |
| Then this sight as on me or you | Q |
| Would act on him like an emetic | R |
| And he'd have to go off and spue | S |
| O Jesus O man of the People | T |
| Who died to abolish all this | U |
| The Pharisee rank and respectable | T |
| The Scribe and the scabrous Priest | N |
| O Jesus O sacred Socialist | N |
| You would die again of shame | V |
| If you were alive and could see | B |
| What things are done in your Name | V |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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