A Jewish Cemetery In Germany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHIJJKLFHCL D| On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery | A |
| a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate hidden by shrubs | B |
| abandoned and forgotten Neither the sound of prayer | C |
| nor the voice of lamentation is heard there | C |
| for the dead praise not the Lord | D |
| Only the voices of our children ring out seeking graves | E |
| and cheering | F |
| each time they find one like mushrooms in the forest like | G |
| wild strawberries | H |
| Here's another grave There's the name of my mother's | I |
| mothers and a name from the last century And here's a name | J |
| and there And as I was about to brush the moss from the name | J |
| Look an open hand engraved on the tombstone the grave | K |
| of a kohen | L |
| his fingers splayed in a spasm of holiness and blessing | F |
| and here's a grave concealed by a thicket of berries | H |
| that has to be brushed aside like a shock of hair | C |
| from the face of a beautiful beloved woman | L |
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| Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld | D |
Yehuda Amichai
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