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 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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