Perch-fishing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGGHHIIAAJ J KKLLMMNNOPP QQRREESSOOAA| On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew | A |
| And sunlight blurred below but sultry blue | A |
| Burned yet on the valley water where it hoards | B |
| Behind the miller's elmen floodgate boards | B |
| And there the wasps that lodge them ill concealed | C |
| In the vole's empty house still drove afield | C |
| To plunder touchwood from old crippled trees | D |
| And build their young ones their hutched nurseries | D |
| Still creaked the grasshoppers' rasping unison | E |
| Nor had the whisper through the tansies run | E |
| Nor weather wisest bird gone home | F |
| How then | G |
| Should wry eels in the pebbled shallows ken | G |
| Lightning coming troubled up they stole | H |
| To the deep shadowed sullen water hole | H |
| Among whose warty snags the quaint perch lair | I |
| As cunning stole the boy to angle there | I |
| Muffling least tread with no noise balancing through | A |
| The hangdog alder boughs his bright bamboo | A |
| Down plumbed the shuttled ledger and the quill | J |
| On the quicksilver water lay dead still | J |
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| A sharp snatch swirling to fro of the line | K |
| He's lost he's won with splash and scuffling shine | K |
| Past the low lapping brandy flowers drawn in | L |
| The ogling hunchback perch with needled fin | L |
| And there beside him one as large as he | M |
| Following his hooked mate careless who shall see | M |
| Or what befall him close and closer yet | N |
| The startled boy might take him in his net | N |
| That folds the other | O |
| Slow while on the clay | P |
| The other flounces slow he sinks away | P |
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| What agony usurps that watery brain | Q |
| For comradeship of twenty summers slain | Q |
| For such delights below the flashing weir | R |
| And up the sluice cut playing buccaneer | R |
| Among the minnows lolling in hot sun | E |
| When bathing vagabonds had drest and done | E |
| Rootling in salty flannel weed for meal | S |
| And river shrimps when hushed the trundling wheel | S |
| Snapping the dapping moth and with new wonder | O |
| Prowling through old drowned barges falling asunder | O |
| And O a thousand things the whole year through | A |
| They did together never more to do | A |
Edmund Charles Blunden
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