The Wrathful Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEEFBFGHIJDKLMNA MOMPPQQMRDDSBQBTBUVW QVXDXYZA2AMB2MQMUMC2 D2DE2F2BBG2H2BI2MHDJ 2K2DL2M2N2O2P2Q2R2A2 BS2BBBG2T2U2V2DW2X2A FDBDY2B| O pupils of Gaza | A |
| Teach us | B |
| A little of what you have | C |
| For we have forgotten | D |
| Teach us | B |
| To be men | E |
| For we have men | E |
| dough they become | F |
| Teach us | B |
| How the rocks become | F |
| in the children's hands | G |
| precious diamond | H |
| How it becomes | I |
| The child's bicycle a mine | J |
| And the silk ribbon | D |
| An ambush | K |
| How the feeding bottle nipple | L |
| If detained not | M |
| Turns into a knife | N |
| O pupils of Gaza | A |
| Care not | M |
| about our broadcasts | O |
| And hear us not | M |
| Strike | P |
| Strike | P |
| With all your powers | Q |
| And firmly in your hands take matters | Q |
| And ask us not | M |
| We the people of arithmetic | R |
| And of addition | D |
| And of subtraction | D |
| Your wars do carry on | S |
| And abstain from us | B |
| We're the deserters | Q |
| from the service | B |
| Your ropes do bring | T |
| And hang us | B |
| We're mortals | U |
| Who possess not tombs | V |
| And orphans | W |
| who possess not masters | Q |
| We kept already to our rooms | V |
| And we asked you | X |
| To fight the dragon | D |
| We've diminished before you | X |
| A thousand century | Y |
| And you've grown | Z |
| Within a month Centuries | A2 |
| O pupils of Gaza | A |
| Return not | M |
| To our writings | B2 |
| And read us not | M |
| We're your fathers | Q |
| Do resemble us not | M |
| We're your idols | U |
| Do worship us not | M |
| We engage in | C2 |
| Political lies | D2 |
| And repression | D |
| And we build graves | E2 |
| And jails | F2 |
| Liberate us | B |
| From the fear problem in us | B |
| And expel | G2 |
| The opium from our heads | H2 |
| Teach us | B |
| The art of adherence to the Land | I2 |
| And leave not | M |
| The Messiah saddened | H |
| O our beloved children | D |
| Salam | J2 |
| May Allah render your day | K2 |
| Jasmine | D |
| From the cracks of ruined earth | L2 |
| You emerged forth | M2 |
| And planted in our wound | N2 |
| Musk rose | O2 |
| This is the revolution of notebooks | P2 |
| And ink | Q2 |
| Do become on the lips | R2 |
| melodies | A2 |
| Shower us | B |
| Heroism and pride | S2 |
| And from our ugliness wash us | B |
| Wash us | B |
| Fear neither Moses | B |
| Nor Moses' spell | G2 |
| And ready yourself | T2 |
| To harvest the olives | U2 |
| Verily this Jewish age | V2 |
| is an illusion | D |
| That shall collapse | W2 |
| Albeit sureness we possess | X2 |
| O madmen of Gaza | A |
| A thousand welcome | F |
| in madmen | D |
| If they liberate us | B |
| Verily the age of political reason | D |
| has long bygone | Y2 |
| Do teach us madness | B |
Nizar Qabbani
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