House Pets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH A AJ| THE white cat is sleeping by the fire | A |
| With her paws tucked under her chin | B |
| Very tame and gentle she is sleeping | C |
| Whom I saw but now come in | B |
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| Come in from the dark night and the wild wood | D |
| A hunter with her prey she came | E |
| And her chin and her little paws were bloody | F |
| And she was not kind and tame | E |
| - | |
| But wild and strong and cruel with her victim | G |
| For she let it go and caught it as it ran | H |
| And she tossed it in the air and danced about it | I |
| And once she stood erect like a man | H |
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| And I thought 'What wild things are they that we harbor | A |
| Who bend to the routine of daily life ' | - |
| And I looked across the room and by the fire | A |
| I saw my sleeping wife | J |
Alice Duer Miller
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