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 YAThe face of Qana | A |
Pale like that of Jesus | B |
and the sea breeze of April | C |
Rains of blood and tears | D |
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They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodies | E |
Raising a Nazi flag | F |
in the lands of the South | G |
and rehearsing its stormy chapters | H |
Hitler cremated them in the gas chambers | H |
and they came after him to burn us | B |
Hitler kicked them out of Eastern Europe | I |
and they kicked us out of our lands | J |
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They entered Qana | A |
Like hungry wolves | K |
Putting to fire the house of the Messiah | A |
Stepping on the dress of Hussain | L |
and the dear land of the South | G |
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Blasted Wheat Olive trees and Tobacco | M |
and the melodies of the nightingale | N |
Blasted Cadmus in his bark | O |
Blasted sea and the gulls | P |
Blasted even hospitals | P |
even nursing moms | Q |
and schoolboys | R |
Blasted the beauty of the Southern women | S |
and murdered the gardens of the honeyed eyes | T |
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We saw the tears in Ali's eyes | T |
We heard his voice as he prayed | U |
under the rain of bloody skies | T |
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Who ever will write about the history of Qana | A |
Will inscribe in his parchments | T |
This was the second Karbala | N |
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Qana unveiled what was hidden | S |
We saw America | A |
Wearing the old coat of a Jewish Rabbi | V |
Leading the slaughter | W |
Blasting our children for no reason | S |
Blasting our wives for no reason | S |
Blasting our trees for no reason | S |
Blasting our thoughts for no reason | S |
Has it been decreed in her constitution | S |
She America mistress of the world | X |
In Hebrew that she should humble us al Arab | Y |
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Has it been decreed that each time a ruler in America | A |
wants to win the presidency that he should kill us | T |
We al Arab | Y |
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We waited for one Arab to come | Z |
pull this thorny prick from our necks | T |
We waited for single Qureishite | X |
A single Hashemite | X |
A single Don Quixote | X |
A single local hero for whom they did not shave the moustache | A2 |
We waited for a Khalid Tariq or Antara | W |
We were eaten chatter while engaged in vain talk | B2 |
They sent a fax | T |
We read its text | X |
after paying tribute | X |
and the end of the slaughter | W |
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What does Israel fear from our cries | T |
What does she fear from our faxes | T |
The Jihad of the fax is the weakest of Jihads | T |
It is a single text we write | X |
for all the martyrs who left | X |
and all the martyrs those who will come | Z |
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What does Israel fear from Ibn al Muqaffa' | C2 |
Jarir and Farazdaq | B2 |
And Khansa throwing her poems at the gates of the cemetery | W |
What does she fear if we burn tires | T |
Sign communiqu s | T |
And destroy shops | T |
And she knows that we have never been kings of war | W |
But were kings of chatters | T |
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What does Israel fear | W |
from the beating of the drums | T |
the tearing of clothes | T |
and the scratching of cheeks | T |
What does she fear | W |
when she hears | T |
the stories of Ad and Thamud | X |
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We are in national comma | A |
We did not receive | C2 |
Since the times of conquest | X |
a single mail | N |
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We are a people of made of dough | X |
The more Israel increases in her killing and terrorism | Z |
the more we increase in idleness and coldness | T |
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A Smothering Dominion | S |
A regional dialect that increases in ugliness | T |
and a green union that grows in isolation | S |
Summer trees growing barren | S |
And borders whenever the whim strikes | T |
erase other borders | T |
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Israel should slaughter us and why not | X |
She should erase Hisham Ziyad and ar Rashid and why not | X |
Why not and the Banu Taghlab lusting after their women | S |
Why not and Banu Mazen lusting after their slave boys | T |
Why not and Banu Adnan dropping their trousers to their knees | T |
debating necking and the lips | T |
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What should Israel fear from some of al Arab | Y |
When they became Yehuda | A |
Nizar Qabbani
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