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In both the song and the peom someone is trying to persuade someone.In the "Cats and the Cradle" it states,"He learned to walk while I was away.", "I said,'Not today,I got a lot to do' ".In the poem it states, "Come away,O human child!To the waters and the wild with a faery,hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." These quotes show they way the chararcters in both the song and the poem are trying to persuade someone.In the poem are fairy wants to take the child to their wonderful land by explaing or stating all the wonderful things that their world has.In the song the little boy always tells his dad to come home and spepend time with him,yet the dad never has time to be a loving father.

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