The Real Bait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHDHD IJIJFDFD KJKJLDLD| To gentle ways I am inclined | A |
| I have no wish to kill | B |
| To creatures dumb I would be kind | A |
| I like them all but still | B |
| Right now I think I'd like to be | C |
| Beside some rippling brook | D |
| And grab a worm I'd brought with me | C |
| And slip him on a hook | D |
| - | |
| I'd like to put my hand once more | E |
| Into a rusty can | F |
| And turn those squirmy creatures o'er | G |
| Like nuggets in a pan | F |
| And for a big one once again | H |
| With eager eyes I'd look | D |
| As did a boy I knew and then | H |
| Impale it on a hook | D |
| - | |
| I've had my share of fishing joy | I |
| I've fished with patent bait | J |
| With chub and minnow but the boy | I |
| Is lord of sport's estate | J |
| And no such pleasure comes to man | F |
| So rare as when he took | D |
| A worm from a tomato can | F |
| And slipped it on a hook | D |
| - | |
| I'd like to gaze with glowing eyes | K |
| Upon that precious bait | J |
| To view each fat worm as a prize | K |
| To be accounted great | J |
| And though I've passed from boyhood's term | L |
| And opened age's book | D |
| I still would like to put a worm | L |
| That wriggled on a hook | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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