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 G2G2G2DMistah Kurtz he dead | A |
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A penny for the Old Guy | B |
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I | B |
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We are the hollow men | C |
We are the stuffed men | C |
Leaning together | D |
Headpiece filled with straw Alas | E |
Our dried voices when | C |
We whisper together | D |
Are quiet and meaningless | F |
As wind in dry grass | E |
Or rats' feet over broken glass | E |
In our dry cellar | D |
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Shape without form shade without colour | D |
Paralysed force gesture without motion | G |
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Those who have crossed | H |
With direct eyes to death's other Kingdom | I |
Remember us if at all not as lost | H |
Violent souls but only | J |
As the hollow men | C |
The stuffed men | C |
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II | B |
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreams | K |
In death's dream kingdom | I |
These do not appear | D |
There the eyes are | D |
Sunlight on a broken column | I |
There is a tree swinging | L |
And voices are | D |
In the wind's singing | L |
More distant and more solemn | I |
Than a fading star | D |
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Let me be no nearer | D |
In death's dream kingdom | I |
Let me also wear | D |
Such deliberate disguises | M |
Rat's coat crowskin crossed staves | N |
In a field | O |
Behaving as the wind behaves | N |
No nearer | D |
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Not that final meeting | L |
In the twilight kingdom | I |
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III | B |
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This is the dead land | P |
This is cactus land | P |
Here the stone images | Q |
Are raised here they receive | R |
The supplication of a dead man's hand | P |
Under the twinkle of a fading star | D |
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Is it like this | S |
In death's other kingdom | I |
Waking alone | T |
At the hour when we are | D |
Trembling with tenderness | F |
Lips that would kiss | S |
Form prayers to broken stone | T |
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IV | R |
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The eyes are not here | D |
There are no eyes here | D |
In this valley of dying stars | U |
In this hollow valley | J |
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms | V |
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In this last of meeting places | Q |
We grope together | D |
And avoid speech | W |
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river | D |
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Sightless unless | X |
The eyes reappear | D |
As the perpetual star | D |
Multifoliate rose | Y |
Of death's twilight kingdom | I |
The hope only | J |
Of empty men | C |
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V | J |
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Here we go round the prickly pear | D |
Prickly pear prickly pear | D |
Here we go round the prickly pear | D |
At five o'clock in the morning | L |
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Between the idea | Z |
And the reality | J |
Between the motion | G |
And the act | A2 |
Falls the Shadow | B2 |
For Thine is the Kingdom | I |
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Between the conception | G |
And the creation | G |
Between the emotion | G |
And the response | C2 |
Falls the Shadow | B2 |
Life is very long | D2 |
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Between the desire | D |
And the spasm | I |
Between the potency | J |
And the existence | E2 |
Between the essence | E2 |
And the descent | F2 |
Falls the Shadow | B2 |
For Thine is the Kingdom | I |
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For Thine is | M |
Life is | M |
For Thine is the | Z |
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This is the way the world ends | G2 |
This is the way the world ends | G2 |
This is the way the world ends | G2 |
Not with a bang but a whimper | D |
T. S. Eliot
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