Analysis of 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!
| Scheme | XABA XXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1011011111 0101011111 11011110 1101001101 1011111101 1111011101 101010111 1101110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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