My teacher says to create a St. Ives poem and solve it, but I don't know what to do. Help?

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As I was Going to St. Ives
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"As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?"

How about --

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a cat with nine lives
So then am I supposed to do Each lives had. And so on?
Yes.
I'm confused about this too. I tried to look it up online, but this is what I found.