The Face Of Qana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHHBIJ AKALG MNOPPQRST TUT ATN SAVWSSSSSXY ATY ZTXXXA2WB2TXXW TTTXXZ C2B2WTTTWT WTTTWTX AC2XN XZT STSSTT XXSTTT YA

The face of QanaA
Pale like that of JesusB
and the sea breeze of AprilC
Rains of blood and tearsD
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They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodiesE
Raising a Nazi flagF
in the lands of the SouthG
and rehearsing its stormy chaptersH
Hitler cremated them in the gas chambersH
and they came after him to burn usB
Hitler kicked them out of Eastern EuropeI
and they kicked us out of our landsJ
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They entered QanaA
Like hungry wolvesK
Putting to fire the house of the MessiahA
Stepping on the dress of HussainL
and the dear land of the SouthG
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Blasted Wheat Olive trees and TobaccoM
and the melodies of the nightingaleN
Blasted Cadmus in his barkO
Blasted sea and the gullsP
Blasted even hospitalsP
even nursing momsQ
and schoolboysR
Blasted the beauty of the Southern womenS
and murdered the gardens of the honeyed eyesT
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We saw the tears in Ali's eyesT
We heard his voice as he prayedU
under the rain of bloody skiesT
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Who ever will write about the history of QanaA
Will inscribe in his parchmentsT
This was the second KarbalaN
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Qana unveiled what was hiddenS
We saw AmericaA
Wearing the old coat of a Jewish RabbiV
Leading the slaughterW
Blasting our children for no reasonS
Blasting our wives for no reasonS
Blasting our trees for no reasonS
Blasting our thoughts for no reasonS
Has it been decreed in her constitutionS
She America mistress of the worldX
In Hebrew that she should humble us al ArabY
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Has it been decreed that each time a ruler in AmericaA
wants to win the presidency that he should kill usT
We al ArabY
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We waited for one Arab to comeZ
pull this thorny prick from our necksT
We waited for single QureishiteX
A single HashemiteX
A single Don QuixoteX
A single local hero for whom they did not shave the moustacheA2
We waited for a Khalid Tariq or AntaraW
We were eaten chatter while engaged in vain talkB2
They sent a faxT
We read its textX
after paying tributeX
and the end of the slaughterW
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What does Israel fear from our criesT
What does she fear from our faxesT
The Jihad of the fax is the weakest of JihadsT
It is a single text we writeX
for all the martyrs who leftX
and all the martyrs those who will comeZ
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What does Israel fear from Ibn al Muqaffa'C2
Jarir and FarazdaqB2
And Khansa throwing her poems at the gates of the cemeteryW
What does she fear if we burn tiresT
Sign communiqu sT
And destroy shopsT
And she knows that we have never been kings of warW
But were kings of chattersT
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What does Israel fearW
from the beating of the drumsT
the tearing of clothesT
and the scratching of cheeksT
What does she fearW
when she hearsT
the stories of Ad and ThamudX
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We are in national commaA
We did not receiveC2
Since the times of conquestX
a single mailN
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We are a people of made of doughX
The more Israel increases in her killing and terrorismZ
the more we increase in idleness and coldnessT
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A Smothering DominionS
A regional dialect that increases in uglinessT
and a green union that grows in isolationS
Summer trees growing barrenS
And borders whenever the whim strikesT
erase other bordersT
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Israel should slaughter us and why notX
She should erase Hisham Ziyad and ar Rashid and why notX
Why not and the Banu Taghlab lusting after their womenS
Why not and Banu Mazen lusting after their slave boysT
Why not and Banu Adnan dropping their trousers to their kneesT
debating necking and the lipsT
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What should Israel fear from some of al ArabY
When they became YehudaA

Nizar Qabbani



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