The Strangest Creature On Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAADAE CFGAHIJKLAMNOPQRQ I| You're like a scorpion my brother | A |
| you live in cowardly darkness | B |
| like a scorpion | C |
| You're like a sparrow my brother | A |
| always in a sparrow's flutter | A |
| You're like a clam my brother | A |
| closed like a clam content | D |
| And you're frightening my brother | A |
| like the mouth of an extinct volcano | E |
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| Not one | C |
| not five | F |
| unfortunately you number millions | G |
| You're like a sheep my brother | A |
| when the cloaked drover raises his stick | H |
| you quickly join the flock | I |
| and run almost proudly to the slaughterhouse | J |
| I mean you're strangest creature on earth | K |
| even stranger than the fish | L |
| that couldn't see the ocean for the water | A |
| And the oppression in this world | M |
| is thanks to you | N |
| And if we're hungry tired covered with blood | O |
| and still being crushed like grapes for our wine | P |
| the fault is yours | Q |
| I can hardly bring myself to say it | R |
| but most of the fault my dear brother is yours | Q |
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| Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk | I |
Nazim Hikmet
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