The Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEF GHIJBKLM NOPA QRBSTUAA| I'm Ram n Gonz lez Barbagelata from anywhere | A |
| from Cucuy from Paran from Rio Turbio from Oruro | A |
| from Maracaibo from Parral from Ovalle from Loconmilla | B |
| I'm the poor devil from the poor Third World | C |
| I'm the third class passenger installed good God | D |
| in the lavish whiteness of snow covered mountains | E |
| concealed among orchids of subtle idiosyncrasy | F |
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| I've arrived at this famous year and what do I get | G |
| With what do I scratch myself What do I have to do with | H |
| the three glorious zeros that flaunt themselves | I |
| over my very own zero my own non existence | J |
| Pity that brave heart awaiting its call | B |
| or the man enfolded by warmer love | K |
| nothing's left today except my flimsy skeleton | L |
| my eyes unhinged confronting the era's beginning | M |
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| The era's beginning are these ruined shacks | N |
| these poor schools these people still in rags and tatters | O |
| this cloddish insecurity of my poor families | P |
| is all this the day the century's beginning the golden door | A |
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| Well enough said I at least discreet | Q |
| as in office patched and pensive | R |
| I proclaim the redundancy of the inaugural | B |
| I've arrived here with all my baggage | S |
| bad luck and worse jobs | T |
| misery always waiting with open arms | U |
| the mobilization of people piled up on top of each other | A |
| and the manifold geography of hunger | A |
Pablo Neruda
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