Lisy's Parting With Her Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UNVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2G 2H2YI2J2K2L2M2N2O2P2 Q2N2R2S2XEHT2U2V2W2P N2X2C| The dreadful hour with leaden pace approached | A |
| Lashed fiercely on by unrelenting fate | B |
| When Lisy and her bosom Cat must part | C |
| For now to school and pensive needle doomed | D |
| She's banished from her childhood's undashed joy | E |
| And all the pleasing intercourse she kept | F |
| With her grey comrade which has often soothed | G |
| Her tender moments while the world around | H |
| Glowed with ambition business and vice | I |
| Or lay dissolved in sleep's delicious arms | J |
| And from their dewy orbs the conscious stars | K |
| Shed on their friendship influence benign | L |
| But see where mournful Puss advancing stood | M |
| With outstretched tail casts looks of anxious woe | N |
| On melting Lisy in whose eye the tear | O |
| Stood tremulous and thus would fain have said | P |
| If nature had not tied her struggling tongue | Q |
| 'Unkind O who shall now with fattening milk | R |
| With flesh with bread and fish beloved and meat | S |
| Regale my taste and at the cheerful fire | T |
| Ah who shall bask me in their downy lap | U |
| Who shall invite me to the bed and throw | N |
| The bedclothes o'er me in the winter night | V |
| When Eurus roars Beneath whose soothing hand | W |
| Soft shall I purr But now when Lisy's gone | X |
| What is the dull officious world to me | Y |
| I loathe the thoughts of life ' thus plained the Cat | Z |
| While Lisy felt by sympathetic touch | A2 |
| These anxious thoughts that in her mind revolved | B2 |
| And casting on her a desponding look | C2 |
| She snatched her in her arms with eager grief | D2 |
| And mewing thus began 'O Cat beloved | E2 |
| Thou dear companion of my tender years | F2 |
| Joy of my youth that oft hast licked my hands | G2 |
| With velvet tonge ne'er stained by mouse's blood | H2 |
| Oh gentle Cat how shall I part with thee | Y |
| How dead and heavy will the moments pass | I2 |
| When you are not in my delighted eye | J2 |
| With Cubi playing or your flying tail | K2 |
| How harshly will the softest muslin feel | L2 |
| And all the silk of schools while I no more | M2 |
| Have your sleek skin to soothe my softened sense | N2 |
| How shall I eat while you are not beside | O2 |
| To share the bit How shall I ever sleep | P2 |
| While I no more your lulling murmurs hear | Q2 |
| Yet we must part so rigid fate decress | N2 |
| But never shall your loved idea dear | R2 |
| Part from my soul and when I first can mark | S2 |
| The embroidered figure on the snowy lawn | X |
| Your image shall my needle keen employ | E |
| Hark now I'm called away O direful sound | H |
| I come I come but first I charge you all | T2 |
| You you and you particularly you | U2 |
| O Mary Mary feed her with the best | V2 |
| Repose her nightly in the warmest couch | W2 |
| And be a Lisy to her ' Having said | P |
| She sat her down and with her head across | N2 |
| Rushed to the evil which she could not shun | X2 |
| While a sad mew went knelling to her heart | C |
James Thomson
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