More Light! More Light! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGF HIJI KLML NOPO QRSR TUPV WXYZ| For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt | A |
| Composed in the Tower before his execution | B |
| These moving verses and being brought at that time | C |
| Painfully to the stake submitted declaring thus | D |
| I implore my God to witness that I have made no crime | C |
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| Nor was he forsaken of courage but the death was horrible | E |
| The sack of gunpowder failing to ignite | F |
| His legs were blistered sticks on which the black sap | G |
| Bubbled and burst as he howled for the Kindly Light | F |
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| And that was but one and by no means one of he worst | H |
| Permitted at least his pitiful dignity | I |
| And such as were by made prayers in the name of Christ | J |
| That shall judge all men for his soul's tranquility | I |
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| We move now to outside a German wood | K |
| Three men are there commanded to dig a hole | L |
| In which the two Jews are ordered to lie down | M |
| And be buried alive by the third who is a Pole | L |
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| Not light from the shrine at Weimar beyond the hill | N |
| Nor light from heaven appeared But he did refuse | O |
| A Luger settled back deeply in its glove | P |
| He was ordered to change places with the Jews | O |
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| Much casual death had drained away their souls | Q |
| The thick dirt mounted toward the quivering chin | R |
| When only the head was exposed the order came | S |
| To dig him out again and to get back in | R |
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| No light no light in the blue Polish eye | T |
| When he finished a riding boot packed down the earth | U |
| The Luger hovered lightly in its glove | P |
| He was shot in the belly and in three hours bled to death | V |
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| No prayers or incense rose up in those hours | W |
| Which grew to be years and every day came mute | X |
| Ghosts from the ovens sifting through crisp air | Y |
| And settled upon his eyes in a black soot | Z |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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