Try To Remember Some Details Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGHEIAI JKLMNOPQLRSTLUTry to remember some details Remember the clothing | A |
of the one you love | B |
so that on the day of loss you'll be able to say last seen | C |
wearing such and such brown jacket white hat | D |
Try to remember some details For they have no face | E |
and their soul is hidden and their crying | A |
is the same as their laughter | F |
and their silence and their shouting rise to one height | G |
and their body temperature is between and degrees | H |
and they have no life outside this narrow space | E |
and they have no graven image no likeness no memory | I |
and they have paper cups on the day of their rejoicing | A |
and paper cups that are used once only | I |
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Try to remember some details For the world | J |
is filled with people who were torn from their sleep | K |
with no one to mend the tear | L |
and unlike wild beasts they live | M |
each in his lonely hiding place and they die | N |
together on battlefields | O |
and in hospitals | P |
And the earth will swallow all of them | Q |
good and evil together like the followers of Korah | L |
all of them in thir rebellion against death | R |
their mouths open till the last moment | S |
praising and cursing in a single | T |
howl Try try | L |
to remember some details | U |
Yehuda Amichai
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