To A Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBB DDBBEF GGBBBB BBBBHH IIJJKK AABBLL BBMMBB ANOBBKK BBBBPP QQRRSS BBTTKK| I | A |
| Stately kindly lordly friend | B |
| Condescend | B |
| Here to sit by me and turn | C |
| Glorious eyes that smile and burn | C |
| Golden eyes love's lustrous meed | B |
| On the golden page I read | B |
| - | |
| All your wondrous wealth of hair | D |
| Dark and fair | D |
| Silken shaggy soft and bright | B |
| As the clouds and beams of night | B |
| Pays my reverent hand's caress | E |
| Back with friendlier gentleness | F |
| - | |
| Dogs may fawn on all and some | G |
| As they come | G |
| You a friend of loftier mind | B |
| Answer friends alone in kind | B |
| Just your foot upon my hand | B |
| Softly bids it understand | B |
| - | |
| Morning round this silent sweet | B |
| Garden seat | B |
| Sheds its wealth of gathering light | B |
| Thrills the gradual clouds with might | B |
| Changes woodland orchard heath | H |
| Lawn and garden there beneath | H |
| - | |
| Fair and dim they gleamed below | I |
| Now they glow | I |
| Deep as even your sunbright eyes | J |
| Fair as even the wakening skies | J |
| Can it not or can it be | K |
| Now that you give thanks to see | K |
| - | |
| May not you rejoice as I | A |
| Seeing the sky | A |
| Change to heaven revealed and bid | B |
| Earth reveal the heaven it hid | B |
| All night long from stars and moon | L |
| Now the sun sets all in tune | L |
| - | |
| What within you wakes with day | B |
| Who can say | B |
| All too little may we tell | M |
| Friends who like each other well | M |
| What might haply if we might | B |
| Bid us read our lives aright | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Wild on woodland ways your sires | N |
| Flashed like fires | O |
| Fair as flame and fierce and fleet | B |
| As with wings on wingless feet | B |
| Shone and sprang your mother free | K |
| Bright and brave as wind or sea | K |
| - | |
| Free and proud and glad as they | B |
| Here to day | B |
| Rests or roams their radiant child | B |
| Vanquished not but reconciled | B |
| Free from curb of aught above | P |
| Save the lovely curb of love | P |
| - | |
| Love through dreams of souls divine | Q |
| Fain would shine | Q |
| Round a dawn whose light and song | R |
| Then should right our mutual wrong | R |
| Speak and seal the love lit law | S |
| Sweet Assisi's seer foresaw | S |
| - | |
| Dreams were theirs yet haply may | B |
| Dawn a day | B |
| When such friends and fellows born | T |
| Seeing our earth as fair at morn | T |
| May for wiser love's sake see | K |
| More of heaven's deep heart than we | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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