A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FDGHIJKL MDDI NOPDBDD QRSDB| A man doesn't have time in his life | A |
| to have time for everything | B |
| He doesn't have seasons enough to have | C |
| a season for every purpose Ecclesiastes | D |
| Was wrong about that | E |
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| A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment | F |
| to laugh and cry with the same eyes | D |
| with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them | G |
| to make love in war and war in love | H |
| And to hate and forgive and remember and forget | I |
| to arrange and confuse to eat and to digest | J |
| what history | K |
| takes years and years to do | L |
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| A man doesn't have time | M |
| When he loses he seeks when he finds | D |
| he forgets when he forgets he loves when he loves | D |
| he begins to forget | I |
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| And his soul is seasoned his soul | N |
| is very professional | O |
| Only his body remains forever | P |
| an amateur It tries and it misses | D |
| gets muddled doesn't learn a thing | B |
| drunk and blind in its pleasures | D |
| and its pains | D |
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| He will die as figs die in autumn | Q |
| Shriveled and full of himself and sweet | R |
| the leaves growing dry on the ground | S |
| the bare branches pointing to the place | D |
| where there's time for everything | B |
Yehuda Amichai
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