The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock Poem Rhyme Scheme

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S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse	A
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo	B
Questa fiamma staria senza pi ugrave scosse	A
Ma perciocch egrave giammai di questo fondo	B
Non torn ograve vivo alcun s'i'odo il vero	B
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo	B
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Let us go then you and I	C
When the evening is spread out against the sky	C
Like a patient etherised upon a table	D
Let us go through certain half deserted streets	A
The muttering retreats	A
Of restless nights in one night cheap hotels	A
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells	A
Streets that follow like a tedious argument	B
Of insidious intent	B
To lead you to an overwhelming question	E
Oh do not ask 'What is it '	-
Let us go and make our visit	B
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In the room the women come and go	B
Talking of Michelangelo	B
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes	A
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes	A
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening	F
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains	A
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys	A
Slipped by the terrace made a sudden leap	G
And seeing that it was a soft October night	B
Curled once about the house and fell asleep	G
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And indeed there will be time	H
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street	B
Rubbing its back upon the window panes	A
There will be time there will be time	H
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet	B
There will be time to murder and create	B
And time for all the works and days of hands	A
That lift and drop a question on your plate	B
Time for you and time for me	I
And time yet for a hundred indecisions	A
And for a hundred visions and revisions	A
Before the taking of a toast and tea	I
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In the room the women come and go	B
Talking of Michelangelo	B
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And indeed there will be time	H
To wonder 'Do I dare ' and 'Do I dare '	-
Time to turn back and descend the stair	J
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair	J
They will say 'How his hair is growing thin '	-
My morning coat my collar mounting firmly to the chin	K
My necktie rich and modest but asserted by a simple pin	K
They will say 'But how his arms and legs are thin '	-
Do I dare	J
Disturb the universe	A
In a minute there is time	H
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse	A
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For I have known them all already known them all	L
Have known the evenings mornings afternoons	A
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons	A
I know the voices dying with a dying fall	L
Beneath the music from a farther room	M
So how should I presume	M
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And I have known the eyes already known them all	L
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase	A
And when I am formulated sprawling on a pin	K
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall	L
Then how should I begin	K
To spit out all the butt ends of my days and ways	A
And how should I presume	M
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And I have known the arms already known them all	L
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare	J
But in the lamplight downed with light brown hair	J
Is it perfume from a dress	A
That makes me so digress	A
Arms that lie along a table or wrap about a shawl	L
And should I then presume	M
And how should I begin	K
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	-
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Shall I say I have gone at dusk through narrow streets	A
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes	A
Of lonely men in shirt sleeves leaning out of windows	A
	-
I should have been a pair of ragged claws	A
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas	A
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And the afternoon the evening sleeps so peacefully	I
Smoothed by long fingers	A
Asleep tired or it malingers	A
Stretched on on the floor here beside you and me	I
Should I after tea and cakes and ices	A
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis	A
But though I have wept and fasted wept and prayed	B
Though I have seen my head grown slightly bald brought in	K
upon a platter	N
I am no prophet and here's no great matter	N
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker	N
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat and snicker	N
And in short I was afraid	B
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And would it have been worth it after all	L
After the cups the marmalade the tea	I
Among the porcelain among some talk of you and me	I
Would it have been worth while	O
To have bitten off the matter with a smile	O
To have squeezed the universe into a ball	L
To roll it toward some overwhelming question	E
To say 'I am Lazarus come from the dead	B
Come back to tell you all I shall tell you all'	L
If one settling a pillow by her head	B
Should say 'That is not what I meant at all	L
That is not it at all '	-
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And would it have been worth it after all	L
Would it have been worth while	L
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets	A
After the novels after the teacups after the skirts that trail	L
along the floor	P
And this and so much more	P
It is impossible to say just what I mean	Q
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen	Q
Would it have been worth while	L
If one settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl	L
And turning toward the window should say	A
'That is not it at all	L
That is not what I meant at all '	-
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No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be	I
Am an attendant lord one that will do	B
To swell a progress start a scene or two	B
Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool	L
Deferential glad to be of use	A
Politic cautious and meticulous	A
Full of high sentence but a bit obtuse	A
At times indeed almost ridiculous	A
Almost at times the Fool	L
	-
I grow old I grow old	B
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled	B
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach	R
I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach	R
I have heard the mermaids singing each to each	R
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I do not think that they will sing to me	I
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I have seen them riding seaward on the waves	A
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back	S
When the wind blows the water white and black	S
	-
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea	I
By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown	T
Till human voices wake us and we drown	T

T. S. Eliot

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