Cats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDEDD FGFHH IJIKK| Those who love cats which do not even purr | A |
| Or which are thin and tired and very old | B |
| Bend down to them in the street and stroke their fur | A |
| And rub their ears and smooth their breast and hold | B |
| Them carefully and gaze into their eyes of gold | B |
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| For how can they pass what does not ask for love | C |
| But draws it out of those who have too much | D |
| Frustrated souls who cannot use it all who have | E |
| Somewhere too tight and sad within them such | D |
| A tenderness it flows through all they touch | D |
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| They are the ones who love without reward | F |
| Those on whom eyes are closed from whom heads turn | G |
| Who know only too well they can afford | F |
| To squander love since in the breast it burns | H |
| With the cold anguish every lover learns | H |
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| So they pass on victims of silent things | I |
| And what they love remains indifferent | J |
| And stretches in the sun and yawns or licks the rings | I |
| That sheathe its claws or sleeps and is content | K |
| Not knowing who she was or what she meant | K |
Francis Scarfe
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