To A Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBB DDBBEF GGBBBB BBBBHH IIJJKK AABBLL BBMMBB ANOBBKK BBBBPP QQRRSS BBTTKKI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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