My Child Wafts Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADE FGHI ABJK LH M| My child wafts peace | A |
| When I lean over him | B |
| It is not just the smell of soap | C |
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| All the people were children wafting peace | A |
| And in the whole land not even one | D |
| Millstone remained that still turned | E |
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| Oh the land torn like clothes | F |
| That can't be mended | G |
| Hard lonely fathers even in the cave of the Makhpela | H |
| Childless silence | I |
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| My child wafts peace | A |
| His mother's womb promised him | B |
| What God cannot | J |
| Promise us | K |
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| The traditional burial place in Hebron of Abraham | L |
| and the other Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Israel | H |
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| Translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav | M |
Yehuda Amichai
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