Familiarity Dangerous Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIJ| As in her ancient mistress lap | A |
| The youthful tabby lay | B |
| They gave each other many a tap | A |
| Alike disposed to play | B |
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| But strife ensues Puss waxes warm | C |
| And with protruded claws | D |
| Ploughs all the length of Lydia s arm | E |
| Mere wantonness the cause | F |
| - | |
| At once resentful of the deed | G |
| She shakes her to the ground | H |
| With many a threat that she shall bleed | G |
| With still a deeper wound | H |
| - | |
| But Lydia bid thy fury rest | I |
| It was a venial stroke | J |
| For she that will with kittens jest | I |
| Should bear a kitten s joke | J |
William Cowper
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