The Naming Of Cats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBABABADADEDED AFAFGEGECCE| The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter | A |
| It isn't just one of your holiday games | B |
| You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter | A |
| When I tell you a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES | B |
| First of all there's the name that the family use daily | C |
| Such as Peter Augustus Alonzo or James | B |
| Such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill Bailey | C |
| All of them sensible everyday names | B |
| There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter | A |
| Some for the gentlemen some for the dames | B |
| Such as Plato Admetus Electra Demeter | A |
| But all of them sensible everyday names | B |
| But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular | A |
| A name that's peculiar and more dignified | D |
| Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular | A |
| Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride | D |
| Of names of this kind I can give you a quorum | E |
| Such as Munkustrap Quaxo or Coricopat | D |
| Such as Bombalurina or else Jellylorum | E |
| Names that never belong to more than one cat | D |
| But above and beyond there's still one name left over | A |
| And that is the name that you never will guess | F |
| The name that no human research can discover | A |
| But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS and will never confess | F |
| When you notice a cat in profound meditation | G |
| The reason I tell you is always the same | E |
| His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation | G |
| Of the thought of the thought of the thought of his name | E |
| His ineffable effable | C |
| Effanineffable | C |
| Deep and inscrutable singular Name | E |
T. S. Eliot
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