The Naming Of Cats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBABABADADEDED AFAFGEGECCE

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matterA
It isn't just one of your holiday gamesB
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterA
When I tell you a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMESB
First of all there's the name that the family use dailyC
Such as Peter Augustus Alonzo or JamesB
Such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill BaileyC
All of them sensible everyday namesB
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeterA
Some for the gentlemen some for the damesB
Such as Plato Admetus Electra DemeterA
But all of them sensible everyday namesB
But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particularA
A name that's peculiar and more dignifiedD
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicularA
Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his prideD
Of names of this kind I can give you a quorumE
Such as Munkustrap Quaxo or CoricopatD
Such as Bombalurina or else JellylorumE
Names that never belong to more than one catD
But above and beyond there's still one name left overA
And that is the name that you never will guessF
The name that no human research can discoverA
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS and will never confessF
When you notice a cat in profound meditationG
The reason I tell you is always the sameE
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplationG
Of the thought of the thought of the thought of his nameE
His ineffable effableC
EffanineffableC
Deep and inscrutable singular NameE

T. S. Eliot



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