Sarajevo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G E H INow that a revolution really is needed those who were fervent are quite cool | A |
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While a country murdered and raped calls for help from the Europe which it had trusted they yawn | B |
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While statesmen choose villainy and no voice is raised to call it by name | C |
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The rebellion of the young who called for a new earth was a sham and that generation has written the verdict on itself | D |
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Listening with indifference to the cries of those who perish because they are after all just barbarians killing each other | E |
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And the lives of the well fed are worth more than the lives of the starving | F |
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It is revealed now that their Europe since the beginning has been a deception for its faith and its foundation is nothingness | G |
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And nothingness as the prophets keep saying brings forth only nothingness and they will be led once again like cattle to slaughter | E |
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Let them tremble and at the last moment comprehend that the word Sarajevo will from now on mean the destruction of their sons and the debasement of their daughters | H |
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They prepare it by repeating We at least are safe unaware that what will strike them ripens in themselves | I |
Czeslaw Milosz
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