Sensibility Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGGHHIIIDJ A KLMMNNOO PQRRSSTUUBB A NNVVWWIIXYZOHHXXA2A2 FF AAUU| I | A |
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| Once when a boy I killed a cat | B |
| I guess it's just because of that | B |
| A cat evokes my tenderness | C |
| And takes so kindly my caress | D |
| For with a rich resonant purr | E |
| It sleeks an arch or ardent fur | E |
| So vibrantly against my shin | F |
| And as I tickle tilted chin | F |
| And rub the roots of velvet ears | G |
| Its tail in undulation rears | G |
| Then tremoring with all its might | H |
| In blissful sensuous delight | H |
| It looks aloft with lambent eyes | I |
| Mystic Egyptianly wise | I |
| And O so eloquently tries | I |
| In every fibre to express | D |
| Consummate trust and friendliness | J |
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| II | A |
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| I think the longer that we live | K |
| The more do we grow sensitive | L |
| Of hurt and harm to man and beast | M |
| And learn to suffer at the least | M |
| Surmise of other's suffering | N |
| Till pity lie an eager spring | N |
| Wells up and we are over fain | O |
| To vibrate to the chords of pain | O |
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| For look you after three score yeas | P |
| I see with anguish nigh to tears | Q |
| That starveling cat so sudden still | R |
| I set my terrier to to kill | R |
| Great golden memories pale away | S |
| But that unto my dying day | S |
| Will haunt and haunt me horribly | T |
| Why even my poor dog felt shame | U |
| And shrank away as if to blame | U |
| of that poor mangled mother cat | B |
| Would ever lie at his doormat | B |
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| III | A |
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| What's done is done No power can bring | N |
| To living joy a slaughtered thing | N |
| Aye if of life I gave my own | V |
| I could not for my guilt atone | V |
| And though in stress of sea and land | W |
| Sweet breath has ended at my hand | W |
| That boyhood killing in my eyes | I |
| A thousand must epitomize | I |
| Yet to my twilight steals a thought | X |
| Somehow forgiveness may be bought | Y |
| Somewhere I'll live my life again | Z |
| So finely sensitized to pain | O |
| With heart so rhymed to truth and right | H |
| That Truth will be a blaze of light | H |
| All all the evil I have wrought | X |
| Will haggardly to home be brought | X |
| Then will I know my hell indeed | A2 |
| And bleed where I made others bleed | A2 |
| Till purged by penitence of sin | F |
| To Peace or Heaven I may win | F |
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| Well anyway you know the why | A |
| We are so pally cats and I | A |
| So if you have the gift of shame | U |
| O Fellow sinner be the same | U |
Robert William Service
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