Answer:
The song, as Cohen wrote it, is rich with references to Jewish Scriptures, including further references to former shepherd and now King David and his stolen love Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11 v 2). David's fall from God's favour to his eventual restoration to God as one of Israel's most famous kings.
Explanation:
It was poison last i remembered
Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
Wiesel is in his home in Poland in the excerpt.
D) A paragraph should have one main topic