To The Superior Animal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP| To sum up all I'm old and that's | A |
| A fact the years decide | B |
| It is a common thing with cats | A |
| And not a thing to hide | B |
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| But to feel what it is how kind | C |
| How true to love and law | D |
| For this you must be quite resigned | C |
| And not avoid its paw | D |
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| It does not come as reckless foe | E |
| A shrinking prey to take | F |
| But with soft footstep that we know | E |
| By comfort in its wake | F |
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| Though it spoils something that is true | G |
| Which we must learn to lack | H |
| And takes alike from me and you | G |
| What never does come back | H |
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| It caters for our failing strength | I |
| In many a dainty scrap | J |
| And gently lays us at our length | I |
| In some secluded lap | J |
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| It may bless you I think it should | K |
| Beyond what I make out | L |
| With things perhaps too great and good | K |
| For cats to talk about | L |
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| Since I find in it blessing free | M |
| From all it can destroy | N |
| And so its progress is to me | M |
| A miracle of joy | N |
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| But my look out to occupy | O |
| And make the most of that | P |
| You must be quite as old as I | O |
| If not yourself a Cat | P |
Anna Laetitia Waring
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