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Fishing On The Susquehanna In July Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBA EFG HFA IJA KBL MAA NJO PQA RKS TBT UVW XYZ

I have never been fishing on the SusquehannaA
or on any river for that matterB
to be perfectly honestC
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Not in July or any monthD
have I had the pleasure if it is a pleasureB
of fishing on the SusquehannaA
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I am more likely to be foundE
in a quiet room like this oneF
a painting of a woman on the wallG
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a bowl of tangerines on the tableH
trying to manufacture the sensationF
of fishing on the SusquehannaA
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There is little doubtI
that others have been fishingJ
on the SusquehannaA
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rowing upstream in a wooden boatK
sliding the oars under the waterB
then raising them to drip in the lightL
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But the nearest I have ever come toM
fishing on the SusquehannaA
was one afternoon in a museum in PhiladelphiaA
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when I balanced a little egg of timeN
in front of a paintingJ
in which that river curled around a bendO
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under a blue cloud ruffled skyP
dense trees along the banksQ
and a fellow with a red bandanaA
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sitting in a small greenR
flat bottom boatK
holding the thin whip of a poleS
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That is something I am unlikelyT
ever to do I rememberB
saying to myself and the person next to meT
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Then I blinked and moved onU
to other American scenesV
of haystacks water whitening over rocksW
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even one of a brown hareX
who seemed so wired with alertnessY
I imagined him springing right out of the frameZ

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