On Rabbi Kook's Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKLDMN JJOPQ RSTH| On Rabbi Kook's Street | A |
| I walk without this good man | B |
| A streiml he wore for prayer | C |
| A silk top hat he wore to govern | D |
| fly in the wind of the dead | E |
| above me float on the water | F |
| of my dreams | G |
| - | |
| I come to the Street of Prophets there are none | H |
| And the Street of Ethiopians there are a few I'm | I |
| looking for a place for you to live after me | J |
| padding your solitary nest for you | K |
| setting up the place of my pain with the sweat of my brow | L |
| examining the road on which you'll return | D |
| and the window of your room the gaping wound | M |
| between closed and opened between light and dark | N |
| - | |
| There are smells of baking from inside the shanty | J |
| there's a shop where they distribute Bibles free | J |
| free free More than one prophet | O |
| has left this tangle of lanes | P |
| while everything topples above him and he becomes someone else | Q |
| - | |
| On Rabbi Kook's street I walk | R |
| your bed on my back like a cross | S |
| though it's hard to believe | T |
| a woman's bed will become the symbol of a new religion | H |
Yehuda Amichai
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