The Greater Cats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDD EFEFGGGGHH IJIKLLLLLGG| The greater cats with golden eyes | A |
| Stare out between the bars | B |
| Deserts are there and different skies | A |
| And night with different stars | B |
| They prowl the aromatic hill | C |
| And mate as fiercely as they kill | C |
| And hold the freedom of their will | C |
| To roam to live to drink their fill | C |
| But this beyond their wit know I | D |
| Man loves a little and for long shall die | D |
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| Their kind across the desert range | E |
| Where tulips spring from stones | F |
| Not knowing they will suffer change | E |
| Or vultures pick their bones | F |
| Their strength's eternal in their sight | G |
| They rule the terror of the night | G |
| They overtake the deer in flight | G |
| And in their arrogance they smite | G |
| But I am sage if they are strong | H |
| Man's love is transient as his death is long | H |
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| Yet oh what powers to deceive | I |
| My wit is turned to faith | J |
| And at this moment I believe | I |
| In love and scout at death | K |
| I came from nowhere and shall be | L |
| Strong steadfast swift eternally | L |
| I am a lion a stone a tree | L |
| And as the Polar star in me | L |
| Is fixed my constant heart on thee | L |
| Ah may I stay forever blind | G |
| With lions tigers leopards and their kind | G |
Vita (victoria) Sackville-west
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