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Poem (As the cat)

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)

As the cat
climbed over
the top of

the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot

carefully
then the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXB AXX CXXBCX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 164
Words 31
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 6
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