Overheard By A Stream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FEGGG HHIIJJKKJJLGEE| Here is the pool and there the waterfall | A |
| This is the bank keep out of sight and crawl | A |
| Along the side to where that alder clump | B |
| Juts out 'Twas there I saw a salmon jump | B |
| A full eight feet not fifteen minutes past | C |
| Bend low a bit Or else the sun will cast | C |
| Your shadow on the stream Still farther stop | D |
| Now joint your rod reel out your line and drop | D |
| Your leader with the silver doctor on it | E |
| Behind that rock that's got the log upon it | E |
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| There's nothing here the water is too quiet | F |
| You need a pool with rapids flowing by it | E |
| Plenty of rush and motion heave and roar | G |
| To turn their thoughts from things upon the shore | G |
| The day's too calm I told you that before | G |
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| Just mind your line I tell you that he's there | H |
| I saw him spring up ten feet in the air | H |
| Twelve pounder if an ounce Great Mackinaw | I |
| Look Quick He's on The doctor in his jaw | I |
| Snapped Gone You big fool Worse than any fool | J |
| What did you think to find here in this pool | J |
| A minnow or a shiner that you tried | K |
| With such a jerk to land him on the side | K |
| Of this high bank That was a salmon fool | J |
| The biggest one that swam within this pool | J |
| The one I saw that jumped twelve feet not lower | L |
| Would tip the scales at fourteen pounds or more | G |
| Lost near that rock that's got the rock upon it | E |
| Gone with the leader and the doctor on it | E |
E. J. Pratt
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