I Want To Die In My Own Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDBB EFBB GGBB H| All night the army came up from Gilgal | A |
| To get to the killing field and that's all | A |
| In the ground warf and woof lay the dead | B |
| I want to die in My own bed | B |
| Like slits in a tank their eyes were uncanny | C |
| I'm always the few and they are the many | C |
| I must answer They can interrogate My head | B |
| But I want to die in My own bed | B |
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| The sun stood still in Gibeon Forever so it's willing | D |
| to illuminate those waging battle and killing | D |
| I may not see My wife when her blood is shed | B |
| But I want to die in My own bed | B |
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| Samson his strength in his long black hair | E |
| My hair they sheared when they made me a hero | F |
| Perforce and taught me to charge ahead | B |
| I want to die in My own bed | B |
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| I saw you could live and furnish with grace | G |
| Even a lion's den if you've no other place | G |
| I don't even mind to die alone to be dead | B |
| But I want to die in My own bed | B |
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| Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav | H |
Yehuda Amichai
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