A Song Of Bananas (brazilian Verses) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB ABDBB ABEBB ABCBB ABFBB ABCEB| Have you no Bananas simple townsmen all | A |
| Nay but we have them certainly | B |
| We buy them off the barrows with the vegetable marrows | C |
| And the cabbage of our own country | B |
| From the costers of our own country | B |
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| Those are not Bananas simple townsmen all | A |
| Plantains from Canaryward maybe | B |
| For the true are red and gold and they fill no steamer's hold | D |
| But flourish in a rare country | B |
| That men go far to see | B |
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| Their stiff fronds point the nooning down simple townsmen all | A |
| Or rear against the breezes off the sea | B |
| Or duck and loom again through the curtains of the rain | E |
| That the loaded hills let free | B |
| Bellying 'twixt the uplands and the sea | B |
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| Little birds inhabit there simple townsmen all | A |
| Jewelled things no bigger than a bee | B |
| And the opal butterflies plane and settle flare and rise | C |
| Through the low arched greenery | B |
| That is malachite and jade of the sea | B |
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| The red earth works and whispers there simple towns men all | A |
| Day and night in rank fecundity | B |
| That the Blossom and the Snake lie open and awake | F |
| As it was by Eden Tree | B |
| When the First Moon silvered through the Tree | B |
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| But you must go to business simple townsmen all | A |
| By 'bus and train and tram and tube must flee | B |
| For your Pharpars and Abanas do not include Bananas | C |
| And Jordan is a distant stream to drink of simple townsmen | E |
| Which leaves the more for me | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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