A Child's Nightmare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFF GHIIHGFF JKLMGNFF OAPPEOFF GQRRQGFF| Through long nursery nights he stood | A |
| By my bed unwearying | B |
| Loomed gigantic formless queer | C |
| Purring in my haunted ear | D |
| That same hideous nightmare thing | B |
| Talking as he lapped my blood | E |
| In a voice cruel and flat | F |
| Saying for ever Cat Cat Cat | F |
| - | |
| That one word was all he said | G |
| That one word through all my sleep | H |
| In monotonous mock despair | I |
| Nonsense may be light as air | I |
| But there's Nonsense that can keep | H |
| Horror bristling round the head | G |
| When a voice cruel and flat | F |
| Says for ever Cat Cat Cat | F |
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| He had faded he was gone | J |
| Years ago with Nursery Land | K |
| When he leapt on me again | L |
| From the clank of a night train | M |
| Overpowered me foot and head | G |
| Lapped my blood while on and on | N |
| The old voice cruel and flat | F |
| Says for ever Cat Cat Cat | F |
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| Morphia drowsed again I lay | O |
| In a crater by High Wood | A |
| He was there with straddling legs | P |
| Staring eyes as big as eggs | P |
| Purring as he lapped my blood | E |
| His black bulk darkening the day | O |
| With a voice cruel and flat | F |
| Cat Cat Cat Cat he said Cat Cat | F |
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| When I'm shot through heart and head | G |
| And there's no choice but to die | Q |
| The last word I'll hear no doubt | R |
| Won't be Charge or Bomb them out | R |
| Nor the stretcher bearer's cry | Q |
| Let that body be he's dead | G |
| But a voice cruel and flat | F |
| Saying for ever Cat Cat Cat | F |
Robert Graves
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