The Cat With Wings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NKNKAKAK| You never saw a cat with wings | A |
| I'll bet a dollar well I did | B |
| 'Twas one of those fantastic things | A |
| One runs across in old Madrid | B |
| A walloping big tom it was | C |
| Maybe of the Angora line | D |
| With silken ears and velvet paws | E |
| And silver hair superbly fine | D |
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| It sprawled upon a crimson mat | F |
| Yet though crowds came to gaze on it | G |
| It was a supercilious cat | F |
| And didn't seem to mind a bit | G |
| It looked at us with dim disdain | H |
| And indolently seemed to sigh | I |
| There's not another cat in Spain | H |
| One half so marvelous as I | I |
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| Its owner gently stroked its head | J |
| And tickled it with fingers light | K |
| Ah no it cannot fly he said | J |
| But see it has the wings all right | K |
| Then tenderly from off its back | L |
| He raised despite its feline fears | M |
| Appendages that seemed to lack | L |
| Vitality like rabbit's ears | M |
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| And then the vision that I had | N |
| Of Tabbie soaring through the night | K |
| Quick vanished and I felt so sad | N |
| For that poor pussy's piteous plight | K |
| For though frustration has it stings | A |
| Its mockeries in Hope's despite | K |
| The hell of hells is to have wings | A |
| Yet be denied the bliss of flight | K |
Robert Service
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