The United Fruit Co. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGCDHIJKCKLMKK KKNOKKP KKQRSK TKUVTLQWWhen the trumpet sounded it was | A |
all prepared on the earth | B |
the Jehovah parcelled out the earth | B |
to Coca Cola Inc Anaconda | C |
Ford Motors and other entities | D |
The Fruit Company Inc | E |
reserved for itself the most succulent | F |
the central coast of my own land | G |
the delicate waist of America | C |
It rechristened its territories | D |
as the Banana Republics | H |
and over the sleeping dead | I |
over the restless heroes | J |
who brought about the greatness the liberty and the flags | K |
it established the comic opera | C |
abolished the independencies | K |
presented crowns of Caesar | L |
unsheathed envy attracted | M |
the dictatorship of the flies | K |
Trujillo flies Tacho flies | K |
Carias flies Martines flies | K |
Ubico flies damp flies | K |
of modest blood and marmalade | N |
drunken flies who zoom | O |
over the ordinary graves | K |
circus flies wise flies | K |
well trained in tyranny | P |
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Among the blood thirsty flies | K |
the Fruit Company lands its ships | K |
taking off the coffee and the fruit | Q |
the treasure of our submerged | R |
territories flow as though | S |
on plates into the ships | K |
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Meanwhile Indians are falling | T |
into the sugared chasms | K |
of the harbours wrapped | U |
for burials in the mist of the dawn | V |
a body rolls a thing | T |
that has no name a fallen cipher | L |
a cluster of the dead fruit | Q |
thrown down on the dump | W |
Pablo Neruda
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