Milk For The Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGE CHIH JGKG LMGM NOPO QFRF STUT VBVB

When the tea is brought at five o'clockA
And all the neat curtains are drawn with careB
The little black cat with bright green eyesC
Is suddenly purring thereB
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At first she pretends having nothing to doD
She has come in merely to blink by the grateE
But though tea may be late or the milk may beF
sourG
She is never lateE
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And presently her agate eyesC
Take a soft large milky hazeH
And her independent casual glanceI
Becomes a stiff hard gazeH
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Then she stamps her claws or lifts her earsJ
Or twists her tail and begins to stirG
Till suddenly all her lithe body becomesK
One breathing trembling purrG
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The children eat and wriggle and laughL
The two old ladies stroke their silkM
But the cat is grown small and thin with desireG
Transformed to a creeping lust for milkM
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The white saucer like some full moon descendsN
At last from the clouds of the table aboveO
She sighs and dreams and thrills and glowsP
Transfigured with loveO
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She nestles over the shining rimQ
Buries her chin in the creamy seaF
Her tail hangs loose each drowsy pawR
Is doubled under each bending kneeF
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A long dim ecstasy holds her lifeS
Her world is an infinite shapeless whiteT
Till her tongue has curled the last holy dropU
Then she sinks back into the nightT
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Draws and dips her body to heapV
Her sleepy nerves in the great arm chairB
Lies defeated and buried deepV
Three or four hours unconscious thereB

Harold Monro



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