An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGH IEJ KL| An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion | A |
| And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy | B |
| An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father | C |
| Both in their temporary failure | C |
| Our two voices met above | D |
| The Sultan's Pool in the valley between us | E |
| Neither of us wants the boy or the goat | F |
| To get caught in the wheels | G |
| Of the quot Had Gadya quot machine | H |
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| Afterward we found them among the bushes | I |
| And our voices came back inside us | E |
| Laughing and crying | J |
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| Searching for a goat or for a child has always been | K |
| The beginning of a new religion in these mountains | L |
Yehuda Amichai
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