The Diameter Of The Bomb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFAGHGCIJK| The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters | A |
| and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters | A |
| with four dead and eleven wounded | B |
| And around these in a larger circle | C |
| of pain and time two hospitals are scattered | D |
| and one graveyard But the young woman | E |
| who was buried in the city she came from | F |
| at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers | A |
| enlarges the circle considerably | G |
| and the solitary man mourning her death | H |
| at the distant shores of a country far across the sea | G |
| includes the entire world in the circle | C |
| And I won't even mention the crying of orphans | I |
| that reaches up to the throne of God and | J |
| beyond making a circle with no end and no God | K |
Yehuda Amichai
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