On The Fifth Day Of A Hunger Strike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHBFIJKGKLACM ANOADAFKIFPQRSIHTTGK UAVCK| My brothers | A |
| Forgive me if I'm unable to say | B |
| honestly and straightforwardly | C |
| all that I would like to say to you | D |
| I'm drunk my head is light it spins | E |
| not from raki | F |
| but from hunger | G |
| My brothers | A |
| I'm European I'm Asian I'm American | H |
| In this month of May | B |
| I'm not in jail or on a hunger strike | F |
| But lying at night in a meadow | I |
| With your eyes as near to mine as the stars | J |
| And your hands in mine as a single hand | K |
| like the hand of my mother | G |
| like the hand of my helpmate | K |
| like the hand of life | L |
| My brothers | A |
| You at least have never abandoned me | C |
| Not me or my country or my people | M |
| I know that you love me and love what's ours | A |
| As I love you and love what's yours | N |
| And for this | O |
| I thank you my brothers | A |
| I thank you | D |
| My brothers | A |
| I have no intention of dying | F |
| And if I am killed | K |
| I know | I |
| I'll go on living | F |
| in your thoughts | P |
| I'll live in the lines of Aragon | Q |
| in every line that describes | R |
| the coming of beautiful days | S |
| And in the pigeons of Picasso | I |
| And in the folksongs of Robson | H |
| And more beautiful than anything else | T |
| more triumphant than anything else | T |
| I'll live in the jubilant laughter | G |
| of a comrade on strike day | K |
| in the port of Marseilles | U |
| My brothers | A |
| Since you really wish me to talk again | V |
| I'm so happy so happy | C |
| that I spurt the words out | K |
Nazim Hikmet
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