Half The People In The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFEGHIJKLJDMNDM OPQRDSTU| Half the people in the world love the other half | A |
| half the people hate the other half | A |
| Must I because of this half and that half go wandering | B |
| and changing ceaselessly like rain in its cycle | C |
| must I sleep among rocks and grow rugged like | D |
| the trunks of olive trees | E |
| and hear the moon barking at me | F |
| and camouflage my love with worries | E |
| and sprout like frightened grass between the railroad tracks | G |
| and live underground like a mole | H |
| and remain with roots and not with branches and not | I |
| feel my cheek against the cheek of angels and | J |
| love in the first cave and marry my wife | K |
| beneath a canopy of beams that support the earth | L |
| and act out my death always till the last breath and | J |
| the last words and without ever understandig | D |
| and put flagpoles on top of my house and a bob shelter | M |
| underneath And go out on rads made only for | N |
| returning and go through all the apalling | D |
| stationscat stick fire water butcher | M |
| between the kid and the angel of death | O |
| Half the people love | P |
| half the people hate | Q |
| And where is my place between such well matched halves | R |
| and through what crack will I see the white housing | D |
| projects of my dreams and the bare foot runners | S |
| on the sands or at least the waving of a girl's | T |
| kerchief beside the mound | U |
Yehuda Amichai
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