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 "id": "john-keats/to-a-cat",
 "title": "To a Cat",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "book_kind": "compilation",
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 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1830,
  "venue": "The Comic Annual for 1830, edited by Thomas Hood",
  "note": "Addressed to a cat belonging to Mrs. Reynolds, the mother of Keats’s friend John Hamilton Reynolds; she gave the verses to her son-in-law Thomas Hood, who printed them. The claim is the headnote to this poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Cambridge Edition (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1899). The volume is dated for 1830 on its own title; no copy has been read here.",
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  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/completepoetical0000keat"
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  "repo": "standardebooks/john-keats_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://archive.org/details/completepoetical01keat",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005261190"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Cat! who hast pass’d thy grand climacteric,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How many mice and rats hast in thy days",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Destroy’d?⁠—How many tit-bits stolen? Gaze",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With those bright languid segments green, and prick",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those velvet ears⁠—but pr’ythee do not stick",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy latent talons in me⁠—and upraise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy gentle mew⁠—and tell me all thy frays",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For all the wheezy asthma,⁠—and for all",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy tail’s tip is nick’d off⁠—and though the fists",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of many a maid has given thee many a maul,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still is that fur as soft as when the lists",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In youth thou enter’dst on glass-bottled wall.",
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