Fluffy, A Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGHII JJKKHHLL MMNN NNNNNNOO| So now your tale of years is done | A |
| Old Fluff my friend and you have won | A |
| Beyond our land of mist and rain | B |
| Your way to the Elysian plain | B |
| Where through the shining hours of heat | C |
| A cat may bask and lap and eat | C |
| Where goldfish glitter in the streams | D |
| And mice refresh your waking dreams | D |
| And all in fact is planned and that's | E |
| Its great delight to please the cats | E |
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| Yet sometimes too your placid mind | F |
| Will turn to those you've left behind | F |
| And most to one who sheds her tears | G |
| The mistress of your later years | H |
| Who sheds her tears to summon back | I |
| Her faithful cat the white and black | I |
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| Fluffy full well you understood | J |
| The frequent joys of motherhood | J |
| To lick from pointed tail to nape | K |
| The mewing litter into shape | K |
| To show with pride that condescends | H |
| Your offspring to your human friends | H |
| And all our sympathy to win | L |
| For every kit tucked snugly in | L |
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| In your familiar garden ground | M |
| We've raised a tributary mound | M |
| And passing by it we recite | N |
| Your merits and your praise aright | N |
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| Here lies we say from care released | N |
| A faithful furry friendly beast | N |
| Responsive to the lightest word | N |
| About these walks her purr was heard | N |
| Love she received for much she earned | N |
| And much in kindness she returned | N |
| Wherefore her comrades go not by | O |
| Her little grave without a sigh | O |
R. C. Lehmann
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