God Full Of Mercy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEBGHIJK LB IMBCD NGod Full of Mercy the prayer for the dead | A |
If God was not full of mercy | B |
Mercy would have been in the world | C |
Not just in Him | D |
I who plucked flowers in the hills | E |
And looked down into all the valleys | F |
I who brought corpses down from the hills | E |
Can tell you that the world is empty of mercy | B |
I who was King of Salt at the seashore | G |
Who stood without a decision at my window | H |
Who counted the steps of angels | I |
Whose heart lifted weights of anguish | J |
In the horrible contests | K |
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I who use only a small part | L |
Of the words in the dictionary | B |
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I who must decipher riddles | I |
I don't want to decipher | M |
Know that if not for the God full of mercy | B |
There would be mercy in the world | C |
Not just in Him | D |
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Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav | N |
Yehuda Amichai
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