The Linnet And The Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJKKLL MNNOOPP QQHHAADDCCRRSSTTUU ERRLLVVWWAAXXEEYY| WHEN fading Autumn's latest hours | A |
| Strip the brown wood and chill the flowers | A |
| When evening wint'ry short and pale | B |
| Expires in many a hollow gale | B |
| And only morn herself looks gay | C |
| When first she throws her quiv'ring ray | C |
| Where the light frost congeals the dew | D |
| Flushing the turf with purple hue | D |
| Gay bloom whose transient glow can shed | E |
| A charm like Summer when 'tis fled | E |
| A Linnet among leafless trees | F |
| Sung in the pauses of the breeze | F |
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| His farewell note to fancy dear | G |
| That ends the music of the year | G |
| The short'ning day the sadd'ning sky | H |
| With frost and famine low'ring nigh | H |
| The Summer's dirge he seem'd to sing | I |
| And droop'd his elegiac wing | I |
| Poor Bird he read amiss his fate | J |
| Nor saw the horrors of his state | J |
| A prowling Cat with jetty skin | K |
| Dark emblem of the mind within | K |
| Who feels no sympathetic pain | L |
| Who hears unmov'd the sweetest strain | L |
| Fit but 'for stratagem and spoil ' | - |
| Mischief his pleasure and his toil | M |
| Drew near and shook the wither'd leaves | N |
| The Linnet's flutt'ring bosom heaves | N |
| Alarm'd he hears the rustling sound | O |
| He starts he pauses looks around | O |
| Too late more near the savage draws | P |
| And grasps the victim in his jaws | P |
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| The Linnet's muse a tim'rous maid | Q |
| Saw and to Molly scream'd for aid | Q |
| A tear then fill'd her earnest eye | H |
| Useless as dews on desarts lie | H |
| But Molly's pity fell like showers | A |
| That feed the plants and wake the flowers | A |
| Heroic Molly dauntless flew | D |
| And scorning all his claws could do | D |
| Snatch'd from Grimalkin's teeth his prey | C |
| And bore him in her breast away | C |
| His beating heart and wings declare | R |
| How small his hope of safety there | R |
| Still the dire foe he seem'd to see | S |
| And scarce could fancy he was free | S |
| Awhile he cow'rd on Molly's breast | T |
| Then upward sprung and sought his nest | T |
| Dear Molly for thy tender speed | U |
| Thy fearless pity's gentle deed | U |
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| A ribbon garland 'rosy red ' | - |
| My votive gift shall deck thy head | E |
| That garland at the village fair | R |
| Shalt thou dear maid in triumph wear | R |
| And may the blooming wreath obtain | L |
| The youth thy heart desires to gain | L |
| And thou sweet Bird whom rapture fills | V |
| Who feel'st no sense of future ills | V |
| That sense which human peace destroys | W |
| And murders all our present joys | W |
| Still soothe with song th' autumnal hours | A |
| And when the wint'ry tempest lowers | A |
| When snow thy shiv'ring plumes shall fill | X |
| And icicles shall load thy bill | X |
| Come fearless to my friendly shed | E |
| This careful hand the crumbs shall spread | E |
| Then peck secure these watchful eyes | Y |
| Shall guard my Linnet from surprise | Y |
Helen Maria Williams
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