Milk For The Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGE CHIH JGKG LMGM NOPO QFRF STUT VBVBWhen the tea is brought at five o'clock | A |
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care | B |
The little black cat with bright green eyes | C |
Is suddenly purring there | B |
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At first she pretends having nothing to do | D |
She has come in merely to blink by the grate | E |
But though tea may be late or the milk may be | F |
sour | G |
She is never late | E |
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And presently her agate eyes | C |
Take a soft large milky haze | H |
And her independent casual glance | I |
Becomes a stiff hard gaze | H |
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Then she stamps her claws or lifts her ears | J |
Or twists her tail and begins to stir | G |
Till suddenly all her lithe body becomes | K |
One breathing trembling purr | G |
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The children eat and wriggle and laugh | L |
The two old ladies stroke their silk | M |
But the cat is grown small and thin with desire | G |
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk | M |
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The white saucer like some full moon descends | N |
At last from the clouds of the table above | O |
She sighs and dreams and thrills and glows | P |
Transfigured with love | O |
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She nestles over the shining rim | Q |
Buries her chin in the creamy sea | F |
Her tail hangs loose each drowsy paw | R |
Is doubled under each bending knee | F |
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A long dim ecstasy holds her life | S |
Her world is an infinite shapeless white | T |
Till her tongue has curled the last holy drop | U |
Then she sinks back into the night | T |
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Draws and dips her body to heap | V |
Her sleepy nerves in the great arm chair | B |
Lies defeated and buried deep | V |
Three or four hours unconscious there | B |
Harold Monro
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