Black Cat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJIJ KLMN| A ghost though invisible still is like a place | A |
| your sight can knock on echoing but here | B |
| within this thick black pelt your strongest gaze | C |
| will be absorbed and utterly disappear | D |
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| just as a raving madman when nothing else | E |
| can ease him charges into his dark night | F |
| howling pounds on the padded wall and feels | G |
| the rage being taken in and pacified | H |
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| She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen | I |
| into her so that like an audience | J |
| she can look them over menacing and sullen | I |
| and curl to sleep with them But all at once | J |
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| as if awakened she turns her face to yours | K |
| and with a shock you see yourself tiny | L |
| inside the golden amber of her eyeballs | M |
| suspended like a prehistoric fly | N |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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