You Mustn't Show Weakness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFGH IEJKA LMN AOPQRST U| You mustn't show weakness | A |
| and you've got to have a tan | B |
| But sometimes I feel like the thin veils | C |
| of Jewish women who faint | D |
| at weddings and on Yom Kippur | E |
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| You mustn't show weakness | A |
| and you've got to make a list | F |
| of all the things you can load | G |
| in a baby carriage without a baby | H |
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| This is the way things stand now | I |
| if I pull out the stopper | E |
| after pampering myself in the bath | J |
| I'm afraid that all of Jerusalem and with it the whole world | K |
| will drain out into the huge darkness | A |
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| In the daytime I lay traps for my memories | L |
| and at night I work in the Balaam Mills | M |
| turning curse into blessing and blessing into curse | N |
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| And don't ever show weakness | A |
| Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself | O |
| without anyone noticing I'm like an ambulance | P |
| on two legs hauling the patient | Q |
| inside me to Last Aid | R |
| with the wailing of cry of a siren | S |
| and people think it's ordinary speech | T |
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| Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell | U |
Yehuda Amichai
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