Castro Alves From Brazil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDA EFGHE IJIE KEELM NOPQ ERESET UEVWXY| Castro Alves from Brazil for whom did you sing | A |
| Did you sing for the flower For the water | B |
| whose beauty whispered words to the stones | C |
| Did you sing to the eyes to the torn profile | D |
| of the woman you once loved For the spring | A |
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| Yes but those petals were not dewed | E |
| those black waters had no words | F |
| those eyes were those who saw death | G |
| still burning the tortures behind love | H |
| Spring was splashed with blood | E |
| - | |
| I sang for the slaves aboard the ships | I |
| as a dark branch of wrath | J |
| They travelled and bled from the ships | I |
| leaving us the weight of a stolen blood | E |
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| I sang in those days against the inferno | K |
| against the sharp languages of greed | E |
| against the gold drenched in the torment | E |
| against the hand that rose the whip | L |
| against the maestros of darkness | M |
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| Each rose had one dead man in their roots | N |
| The light the night the sky were covered in tears | O |
| the eyes separated from wounded hands | P |
| and it was my voice the only one to fill the silence | Q |
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| I wanted that from the man we could be rescued | E |
| I believed that the route passed through the man | R |
| and from there destiny would be made | E |
| I sang for those who had no voice | S |
| My voice hit doors that until then were closed | E |
| so that fighting Freedom could be let in | T |
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| Castro Alves from Brazil now that your pure book | U |
| is reborn to a free land | E |
| let me poet of our America | V |
| to crown your head with the laurels of the people | W |
| Your voice joined the eternal and loud voice of the men | X |
| You sang well You sang how it must be sung | Y |
Pablo Neruda
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