Blood Oranges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHCIJKCJLMFNO PQ| In a child | A |
| in Hitler's Germany | B |
| what did I know about the war in Spain | C |
| Andalusia was a tango | D |
| on a wind up gramophone | C |
| Franco a hero's face in the paper | E |
| No one told me about a poet | F |
| for whose sake I might have learned Spanish | G |
| bleeding to death on a barren hill | H |
| All I knew of Spain | C |
| were those precious imported treats | I |
| we splurged on for Christmas | J |
| I remember pulling the sections apart | K |
| lining them up sucking each one | C |
| slowly so the red sweetness | J |
| would last and last | L |
| while I was reading a poem | M |
| by a long dead German poet | F |
| in which the woods stood safe | N |
| under the moon's milky eye | O |
| and the white fog in the meadows | P |
| aspired to become lighter than air | Q |
Lisel Mueller
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