Head Against The Walls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG DHIJKEILMENFOPQRMS PTUVWIXYFVZA2B2 C2ID2HE2F2 B2F| There were only a few of them | A |
| In all the earth | B |
| Each one thought he was alone | C |
| They sang they were right | D |
| To sing | E |
| But they sang the way you sack a city | F |
| The way you kill yourself | G |
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| Frayed moist night | D |
| Shall we endure you | H |
| Longer | I |
| Shall we not shake | J |
| Your cloacal evidence | K |
| We shall not wait for a morning | E |
| Made to measure | I |
| We wanted to see in other people's eyes | L |
| Their nights of love exhausted | M |
| They dream only of dying | E |
| Their lovely flesh forgotten | N |
| Bees caught in their honey | F |
| They are ignorant of life | O |
| And we suffer everywhere | P |
| Red roofs dissolve under the tongue | Q |
| Dog days in the full beds | R |
| Come empty your sacks of fresh blood | M |
| There is still a shadow here | S |
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| A shred of imbecile there | P |
| In the wind their masks their cast offs | T |
| In lead their traps their chains | U |
| And their prudent blind men's gestures | V |
| There is fire under rocks | W |
| If you put out the fire | I |
| Be careful we have | X |
| Despite the night it breeds | Y |
| More strength than the belly | F |
| Of your wives and sisters | V |
| And we will reproduce | Z |
| Without them but by ax strokes | A2 |
| In your prisons | B2 |
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| Torrents of stone labors of foam | C2 |
| Where eyes float without rancor | I |
| Just eyes without hope | D2 |
| That know you | H |
| And that you should have put out | E2 |
| Rather than ignore | F2 |
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| With a safety pin quicker than your gibbets | B2 |
| We shall take our booty where we want it to be | F |
Paul Eluard
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