The Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEF GHIJBKLM NOPA QRBSTUAAI'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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