Fishing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GBCBCHIH JKLKIIMI DNONDHDH APIP DAHA| Harry where have you been all morning | A |
| Down at the pool in the meadow brook | B |
| Fishing Yes but the trout were wary | C |
| Couldn't induce them to take a hook | B |
| Why look at your coat You must have fallen | D |
| Your back's just covered with leaves and moss | E |
| How he laughs Good natured fellow | F |
| Fisherman's luck makes most men cross | E |
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| Nellie the Wrights have called Where were you | G |
| Under the tree by the meadow brook | B |
| Reading and oh it was too lovely | C |
| I never saw such a charming book | B |
| The charming book must have pleased her truly | C |
| There's a happy light in her bright young eyes | H |
| And she hugs the cat with unusual fervor | I |
| To staid old Tabby's intense surprise | H |
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| Reading yes but not from a novel | J |
| Fishing truly but not with a rod | K |
| The line is idle the book neglected | L |
| The water grasses whisper and nod | K |
| The fisherman bold and the earnest reader | I |
| Sit talking of what Perhaps the weather | I |
| Perhaps no matter whate'er the subject | M |
| It brings them remarkably close together | I |
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| It causes his words to be softly spoken | D |
| With many a lingering pause between | N |
| The while the sunbeams chase the shadows | O |
| Over the mosses gray and green | N |
| Blushes are needful for its discussion | D |
| And soft shy glances from downcast eyes | H |
| In whose blue depths are lying hidden | D |
| Loving gladness and sweet surprise | H |
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| Trinity Chapel is gay this evening | A |
| Filled with beauty and flowers and light | P |
| A captive fisherman stands at the altar | I |
| With Nellie beside him all in white | P |
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| The ring is on the vows are spoken | D |
| And smiling friends good fortune wishing | A |
| Tell him his is the fairest prize | H |
| Ever brought from a morning's fishing | A |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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