The United Fruit Co. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGCDHIJKCKLMKK KKNOKKP KKQRSK TKUVTLQW| When 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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