Meanwhile, In Another Part Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJJK LEMNOPQ RST UVW

On the street of the concrete refugee tenementsA
That have collapsed into the smoking holesB
The Israeli rockets blew open at dawn s early lightC
The sundered limbs and torsos of a Jenin familyD
Lie with the shards and dust of their householdE
Three generations shredded like paper dollsF
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There are no heads to be found They never had headsG
If they had heads the Israeli spokesman assuresH
The State Department the U N the BelieversI
The CNN camera with his shy smile inJ
His Noo Yock twang they wouldn t have beenJ
Where the terrorists wereK
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Of the three month old infantL
Crushed in its cradle and the eighty year oldE
Shepherd who retired twenty years ago when IsraelisM
From Russia drove off his flock at gunpointN
And his son s wife and the schoolboy all buriedO
In the holes the rockets made which onesP
Were the terrorists A voice off camera asksQ
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But the spokesman shrugs and smilesR
Shyly The cameras and the microphonesS
Are already turned offT
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There were survivors One some sayU
The mother of two victims has volunteeredV
To take the bus to JerusalemW

James Phillip Mcauley



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