And We Shall Not Get Excited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEA FGD HIJA KLH M| And we shall not get excited Because a translator | A |
| May not get excited Calmly we shall pass on | B |
| Words from man to son from one tongue | C |
| To others' lips un | D |
| Knowingly like a father who passes on | B |
| The features of his dead father's face | E |
| To his son and he himself is like neither of them Merely a mediator | A |
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| We shall remember the things we held in our hands | F |
| That slipped out | G |
| What I have in my possesion and what I do not have in my possession | D |
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| We must not get excited | H |
| Calls and their callers drowned Or my beloved | I |
| Gave me a few words before she left | J |
| To bring up for her | A |
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| And no more shall we tell what we were told | K |
| To other tellers Silence as admission We must not | L |
| Get excited | H |
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| Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav | M |
Yehuda Amichai
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