Memorial Day For The War Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED FGEHE IJKFDL MNFOP QRSTU EVW XYE| Memorial day for the war dead Add now | A |
| the grief of all your losses to their grief | B |
| even of a woman that has left you Mix | C |
| sorrow with sorrow like time saving history | D |
| which stacks holiday and sacrifice and mourning | E |
| on one day for easy convenient memory | D |
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| Oh sweet world soaked like bread | F |
| in sweet milk for the terrible toothless God | G |
| Behind all this some great happiness is hiding | E |
| No use to weep inside and to scream outside | H |
| Behind all this perhaps some great happiness is hiding | E |
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| Memorial day Bitter salt is dressed up | I |
| as a little girl with flowers | J |
| The streets are cordoned off with ropes | K |
| for the marching together of the living and the dead | F |
| Children with a grief not their own march slowly | D |
| like stepping over broken glass | L |
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| The flautist's mouth will stay like that for many days | M |
| A dead soldier swims above little heads | N |
| with the swimming movements of the dead | F |
| with the ancient error the dead have | O |
| about the place of the living water | P |
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| A flag loses contact with reality and flies off | Q |
| A shopwindow is decorated with | R |
| dresses of beautiful women in blue and white | S |
| And everything in three languages | T |
| Hebrew Arabic and Death | U |
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| A great and royal animal is dying | E |
| all through the night under the jasmine | V |
| tree with a constant stare at the world | W |
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| A man whose son died in the war walks in the street | X |
| like a woman with a dead embryo in her womb | Y |
| Behind all this some great happiness is hiding | E |
Yehuda Amichai
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