Meanwhile, In Another Part Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJJK LEMNOPQ RST UVWOn the street of the concrete refugee tenements | A |
That have collapsed into the smoking holes | B |
The Israeli rockets blew open at dawn s early light | C |
The sundered limbs and torsos of a Jenin family | D |
Lie with the shards and dust of their household | E |
Three generations shredded like paper dolls | F |
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There are no heads to be found They never had heads | G |
If they had heads the Israeli spokesman assures | H |
The State Department the U N the Believers | I |
The CNN camera with his shy smile in | J |
His Noo Yock twang they wouldn t have been | J |
Where the terrorists were | K |
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Of the three month old infant | L |
Crushed in its cradle and the eighty year old | E |
Shepherd who retired twenty years ago when Israelis | M |
From Russia drove off his flock at gunpoint | N |
And his son s wife and the schoolboy all buried | O |
In the holes the rockets made which ones | P |
Were the terrorists A voice off camera asks | Q |
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But the spokesman shrugs and smiles | R |
Shyly The cameras and the microphones | S |
Are already turned off | T |
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There were survivors One some say | U |
The mother of two victims has volunteered | V |
To take the bus to Jerusalem | W |
James Phillip Mcauley
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