In The City Of Slaughter (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDC EDDFG HIHJKLL| Proceed thence to the ruins the split walls reach | A |
| Where wider grows the hollow and greater grows the breach | A |
| Pass over the shattered hearth attain the broken wall | B |
| Whose burnt and barren brick whose charred stones reveal | C |
| The open mouths of such wounds that no mending | D |
| Shall ever mend nor healing ever heal | C |
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| Terror floating near the rafters terror | E |
| Against the walls in darkness hiding | D |
| Terror through the silence sliding | D |
| Didst thou not hear beneath the heap of wheels | F |
| A stirring of crushed limbs | G |
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| Much suffering and tribulation tried | H |
| Which in this house of bondage binds itself | I |
| It will not ever from its pain be pried | H |
| Brief weary and forespent a dark Shekhinah | J |
| Runs to each nook and cannot find its rest | K |
| Wishes to weep but weeping does not come | L |
| Would roar is dumb | L |
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
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