The Fishing Cure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MBMBNONO| There's nothing that builds up a toil weary soul | A |
| Like a day on a stream | B |
| Back on the banks of the old fishing hole | A |
| Where a fellow can dream | B |
| There's nothing so good for a man as to flee | C |
| From the city and lie | D |
| Full length in the shade of a whispering tree | C |
| And gaze at the sky | D |
| - | |
| Out there where the strife and the greed are forgot | E |
| And the struggle for pelf | F |
| A man can get rid of each taint and each spot | E |
| And clean up himself | F |
| He can be what he wanted to be when a boy | G |
| If only in dreams | H |
| And revel once more in the depths of a joy | G |
| That's as real as it seems | H |
| - | |
| The things that he hates never follow him there | I |
| The jar of the street | J |
| The rivalries petty the struggling unfair | I |
| For the open is sweet | J |
| In purity's realm he can rest and be clean | K |
| Be he humble or great | L |
| And as peaceful his soul may become as the scene | K |
| That his eyes contemplate | L |
| - | |
| It is good for the world that men hunger to go | M |
| To the banks of a stream | B |
| And weary of sham and of pomp and of show | M |
| They have somewhere to dream | B |
| For this life would be dreary and sordid and base | N |
| Did they not now and then | O |
| Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide open space | N |
| And come back to be men | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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