And We Shall Not Get Excited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEA FGD HIJA KLH MAnd 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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