Upstarts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| What do you say that we the toilers the slaves | A |
| Why strain at the gnat name | B |
| Who swallow the camel thing your pocket craves | A |
| That we are just the same | B |
| - | |
| Nay worse when power is ours and wealth that we | C |
| Are harder masters still | D |
| More keen to ring her last from misery | C |
| More greedy of our will | D |
| - | |
| 'Tis true And when you see men so see us | E |
| Sneer at us call us swine | F |
| How we must love you who have made us thus | E |
| You may perhaps divine | F |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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