The Sunshine Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJJKLFMNOPQR SR| They did this to her the men who know her the man | A |
| She loved who loved her not enough being selfish | B |
| And a coward the husband who neither loved nor | C |
| Used her but was a ruthless watcher and the band | D |
| Of cynics she turned to clinging to their chests where | E |
| New hair sprouted like great winged moths burrowing her | F |
| Face into their smells and their young lusts to forget | G |
| To forget oh to forget and they said each of | H |
| Them I do not love I cannot love it is not | I |
| In my nature to love but I can be kind to you | J |
| They let her slide from pegs of sanity into | J |
| A bed made soft with tears and she lay there weeping | K |
| For sleep had lost its use I shall build walls with tears | L |
| She said walls to shut me in Her husband shut her | F |
| In every morning locked her in a room of books | M |
| With a streak of sunshine lying near the door like | N |
| A yellow cat to keep her company but soon | O |
| Winter came and one day while locking her in he | P |
| Noticed that the cat of sunshine was only a | Q |
| Line a half thin line and in the evening when | R |
| He returned to take her out she was a cold and | S |
| Half dead woman now of no use at all to men | R |
Kamala Das
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