The Hollow Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B B CCDECDFEED DG HIHJCC B KIDDILDLID DIDMNOND LI B PPQRPD SITDFST R DDUJV QDWD XDDYIJC J DDDL ZJGA2B2I GGGC2B2D2 DIJE2E2F2B2I MMZ G2G2G2D

Mistah Kurtz he deadA
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A penny for the Old GuyB
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IB
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We are the hollow menC
We are the stuffed menC
Leaning togetherD
Headpiece filled with straw AlasE
Our dried voices whenC
We whisper togetherD
Are quiet and meaninglessF
As wind in dry grassE
Or rats' feet over broken glassE
In our dry cellarD
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Shape without form shade without colourD
Paralysed force gesture without motionG
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Those who have crossedH
With direct eyes to death's other KingdomI
Remember us if at all not as lostH
Violent souls but onlyJ
As the hollow menC
The stuffed menC
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IIB
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsK
In death's dream kingdomI
These do not appearD
There the eyes areD
Sunlight on a broken columnI
There is a tree swingingL
And voices areD
In the wind's singingL
More distant and more solemnI
Than a fading starD
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Let me be no nearerD
In death's dream kingdomI
Let me also wearD
Such deliberate disguisesM
Rat's coat crowskin crossed stavesN
In a fieldO
Behaving as the wind behavesN
No nearerD
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Not that final meetingL
In the twilight kingdomI
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IIIB
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This is the dead landP
This is cactus landP
Here the stone imagesQ
Are raised here they receiveR
The supplication of a dead man's handP
Under the twinkle of a fading starD
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Is it like thisS
In death's other kingdomI
Waking aloneT
At the hour when we areD
Trembling with tendernessF
Lips that would kissS
Form prayers to broken stoneT
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IVR
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The eyes are not hereD
There are no eyes hereD
In this valley of dying starsU
In this hollow valleyJ
This broken jaw of our lost kingdomsV
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In this last of meeting placesQ
We grope togetherD
And avoid speechW
Gathered on this beach of the tumid riverD
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Sightless unlessX
The eyes reappearD
As the perpetual starD
Multifoliate roseY
Of death's twilight kingdomI
The hope onlyJ
Of empty menC
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VJ
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Here we go round the prickly pearD
Prickly pear prickly pearD
Here we go round the prickly pearD
At five o'clock in the morningL
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Between the ideaZ
And the realityJ
Between the motionG
And the actA2
Falls the ShadowB2
For Thine is the KingdomI
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Between the conceptionG
And the creationG
Between the emotionG
And the responseC2
Falls the ShadowB2
Life is very longD2
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Between the desireD
And the spasmI
Between the potencyJ
And the existenceE2
Between the essenceE2
And the descentF2
Falls the ShadowB2
For Thine is the KingdomI
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For Thine isM
Life isM
For Thine is theZ
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This is the way the world endsG2
This is the way the world endsG2
This is the way the world endsG2
Not with a bang but a whimperD

T. S. Eliot



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