Running Amok Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEE FGH EIJ IKL MIN OPQ HRS TUE| In the slums of Tondo people dwell | A |
| in shacks of cardboard bits of bamboo | B |
| corrugated metal and a few cement blocks | C |
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| They come from all the provinces | D |
| a farmer s son from Cagayan | E |
| a coal miner from Bulacan | E |
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| a field hand from the banana plantations | F |
| of Davao They come to Manila | G |
| for work for better pay | H |
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| The highest incidence of men | E |
| running amok is in Tondo | I |
| or at least that s what the local tabloids | J |
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| have for headlines every week Amok in Tondo | I |
| kills seven Police shoot him to death | K |
| During the Filipino American War | L |
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| from to the Colt pistol | M |
| was refined to kill crazed | I |
| Moro fighters who ran amok | N |
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| and would not stop attacking | O |
| with rabid animal urgency | P |
| when shot with bullets of lesser caliber | Q |
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| The superstitious old women in Tondo say | H |
| that no rice no shoes and no work | R |
| breed beetles and violence | S |
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| They say that small black beetles | T |
| can lay eggs in a man s ear | U |
| and this is what makes a man run | E |
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