What Kind Of A Person Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADAEFGAHI JKKLMN OKPQ RLK PST U| What kind of a person are you I heard them say to me | A |
| I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul | B |
| Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system | C |
| Of controlled memory at the end of the twentieth century | A |
| But with an old body from ancient times | D |
| And with a God even older than my body | A |
| I'm a person for the surface of the earth | E |
| Low places caves and wells | F |
| Frighten me Mountain peaks | G |
| And tall buildings scare me | A |
| I'm not like an inserted fork | H |
| Not a cutting knife not a stuck spoon | I |
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| I'm not flat and sly | J |
| Like a spatula creeping up from below | K |
| At most I am a heavy and clumsy pestle | K |
| Mashing good and bad together | L |
| For a little taste | M |
| And a little fragrance | N |
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| Arrows do not direct me I conduct | O |
| My business carefully and quietly | K |
| Like a long will that began to be written | P |
| The moment I was born | Q |
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| s Now I stand at the side of the street | R |
| Weary leaning on a parking meter | L |
| I can stand here for nothing free | K |
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| I'm not a car I'm a person | P |
| A man god a god man | S |
| Whose days are numbered Hallelujah | T |
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| Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav | U |
Yehuda Amichai
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