We Are Accused Of Terrorism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EF GF HIIJ FKLL MN BOP QRS THHR AA UVW FRF CXYX RR AZFFFFBA2F AB2NC2N AD2E2 FFFF2 ANG2H2| We are accused of terrorism | A |
| If we dare to write about the remains of a homeland | B |
| That is scattered in pieces and in decay | C |
| In decadence and disarray | C |
| About a homeland that is searching for a place | D |
| And about a nation that no longer has a face | D |
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| About a homeland that has nothing left of its great ancient verse | E |
| But that of wailing and eulogy | F |
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| About a homeland that has nothing in its horizons | G |
| Of freedoms of different types and ideology | F |
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| About a homeland that forbids us from buying a newspaper | H |
| Or listen to anything | I |
| About a homeland where all birds are always not allowed to sing | I |
| About a homeland that out of horror its writers are using invisible ink | J |
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| About a homeland that resembles poetry in our country | F |
| Improvised imported loose and of no boundaries | K |
| Of foreign tongue and soul | L |
| Detached from Man and Land ignoring their plight as a whole | L |
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| About a homeland to the negotiating table moves | M |
| Without a dignity or shoes | N |
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| About a homeland | B |
| That no more has steadfast men | O |
| With only women therein | P |
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| Bitterness is in our mouths in our talk in our eyes | Q |
| Will draught also plague our souls as a legacy passed to us | R |
| from ancient times | S |
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| Our nation has nobody left even the less glorified | T |
| No one to say 'NO' in the face of those who gave up our | H |
| home bread and butter | H |
| Turning our colorful history into a circus | R |
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| We have not a single honest poem | A |
| That has not lost its virginity in a ruler's Harem | A |
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| We grew accustomed to humiliation | U |
| Then what is left of Man | V |
| If he is comfortable with that | W |
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| I search the books of history | F |
| For men of greatness to deliver us from darkness | R |
| To save our women from fires' brutality | F |
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| I search for men of yesterday | C |
| But all I find is frightened cats | X |
| Fearing for their souls | Y |
| From the authority of rats | X |
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| Are we hit by national blindness | R |
| Or are we suffering from color blindness | R |
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| We are accused of terrorism | A |
| If we refuse to perish | Z |
| Under Israeli tyranny | F |
| That is hampering our unity | F |
| Our history | F |
| Our Bible and our Quran | F |
| Our prophets' land | B |
| If that is our sin and crime | A2 |
| Then terrorism is fine | F |
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| We are accused of terrorism | A |
| If we refuse to be wiped out | B2 |
| By barbarians the Mongols or the Jews | N |
| If we choose to stone the fragile security council | C2 |
| Which was sacked by the king of caesuras | N |
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| We are accused of terrorism | A |
| If we refuse to negotiate the wolf | D2 |
| And reach out for a whore | E2 |
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| America is fighting the cultures of Man | F |
| Because it lacks one | F |
| And against the civilizations because it needs one | F |
| It is a gigantic structure but without a wall | F2 |
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| We are accused of terrorism | A |
| If we refuse current times | N |
| Where America the arrogant the mighty the rich | G2 |
| Became a sworn interpreter of Hebrew | H2 |
Nizar Qabbani
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