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= = =    = = =  Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw - For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - //Macavity's not there//!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, And when you reach the scene of crime - //Macavity's not there//! You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air - But I tell you once and once again, //Macavity's not there//!

Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin; You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in. His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed; His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then //Macavity's not there//!    He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair - Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! //Macavity's not there//!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair - But it's useless to investigate - //Mcavity's not there//! And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: `It //must// have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away. You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibi, and one or two to spaer: At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

http://www.poetry-online.org/eliot_macavity_the_mystery_cat.htm

Analysis of Poem- This poem is meant to be humorous. It is good that the cat now has human characteristics because now the cat can walk and do anything a human can do. Now that the cat Macativity has human characterists and also cat characteristics he can do things like a cat or human. Whatever he chooses to do, it would be better if he acted like a human out on the streets so he can blend in. In every other stanza the author says there is no one like Macavity. This is called repition. The theme of the story is that T.S. Eliot is trying reveal that most cats can be mystorious. The cat Macativity is trying to be a human, but with also having cat characteristics. The author is giving human charastics to Macavity the cat. The author is describing Macavity as soft, and sneaky. There is imagery in this poem because the author is using sight, sound, taste, smell and touch to try and get you to imagine how the story is being told. For an example for when Macavitity is being mysterious is in the poem it says " But when a crime's discovered, Macivitity is not there."

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