Hollow Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC CC DD BB EE FC GG| I had a dream the other night as I lay asleep in my bed | A |
| The spirit of an Indian chief came to me and this is what he said | A |
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| The words of this world has made me bitter I ve lost faith in mankind | B |
| The words they speak are hollow and the truth is hard to find | B |
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| The words they speak are many they shift like grains of sand | C |
| Like the salt from the ocean these words poison the land | C |
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| He tells me it would be much better to move to another land | C |
| He speaks these hollow words to me while he s holding my hand | C |
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| I watch my people starve while the white man s foods are plenty | D |
| He takes our game and burns the land and his hollow words are many | D |
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| This land that I held sacred is now a prison for all my kind | B |
| I was the chief of all my people now I m forbidden to speak my mind | B |
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| We only wanted to live on the land where my people lived and died | E |
| But then the white man came and pushed us all aside | E |
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| My heart is saddened to see the white man s plan | F |
| They took our guns and arrows they even took our land | C |
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| Someday when the spirits come and take me away | G |
| I hope there d be no hollow words in that land far away | G |
Richard Martin
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Poet's note: I had a dream that an Indian Chief said to me "the words of this world has made me bitter". So I wrote the poem [email protected]
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