The Cat's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGE HIJK LMNO JPQR ST| Mine says the cat putting out his paw of darkness | A |
| My lover my friend my slave my toy says | B |
| the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing | C |
| milk from his mother's forgotten breasts | D |
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| Let us walk in the woods says the cat | E |
| I'll teach you to read the tabloid of scents | F |
| to fade into shadow wait like a trap to hunt | G |
| Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat | E |
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| You feed me I try to feed you we are friends | H |
| says the cat although I am more equal than you | I |
| Can you leap twenty times the height of your body | J |
| Can you run up and down trees Jump between roofs | K |
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| Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch | L |
| My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard | M |
| My lusts glow like my eyes I sing to you in the mornings | N |
| walking round and round your bed and into your face | O |
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| Come I will teach you to dance as naturally | J |
| as falling asleep and waking and stretching long long | P |
| I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers | Q |
| Envy lashes my tail Love speaks me entire a word | R |
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| of fur I will teach you to be still as an egg | S |
| and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass | T |
Marge Piercy
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