Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHIJKLMNAO| If you work a body of water and a body of woman | A |
| you can take fish out of one and children out of the other | B |
| for the two kinds of survival The fishing is good | C |
| both kinds are adequate in pleasures and yield | D |
| but the hard work and the miseries are killing | E |
| it is a good life if life is good If not not | F |
| You are out in the world and in in the world | G |
| having it both ways it is sportive and prevenient living | E |
| combined although you have to think about the weathers | H |
| and the hard work and the miseries are what I said | I |
| It runs on like water quickly under the boat | J |
| then slowly like the sand dunes under the house | K |
| You survive by yourself by the one fish for a while | L |
| and then by the other afterward when you run out | M |
| You run out a hooky life baited with good times | N |
| and whether the catch is caught or not is a question | A |
| for those who go fishing for men or among them for things | O |
Alan Dugan
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