A Glimpse Of China. "Caste."
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve,
And they obey, and yet they are not slaves.
It is the "free-born" fuddled Englishmen
That grovel rotting in their living graves.
These Chinese do not fawn with servile lips;
They lift up equal eyes that ask and scan.
Their degradation has escaped at least
That choicest curse of all - the gentleman!
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XABA XXXB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 63 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
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