The Golf Links

The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play. This poem has an interesting rhyme scheme, I don't think it's an ABAB rhyme scheme but it does rhyme. I think the poem is talking about back in the late 1800's during the Gilded Age many children would work, usually under horrible conditions and were given the jobs no one else wanted or could do. I think the poem is very literal, it depicts the children working and seeing the rich men play. It's interesting because it shows a reversed role, usually the child would be playing while the men would work.