Wishing--fishing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBCEE A FGFGFGEE A HEHEIEEE| I | A |
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| Full well I know that wishing never yet has brought | B |
| The things that seem to us would satisfy the heart | C |
| And that anticipated pleasure when at last 'tis caught | D |
| Has naught but transitory solace to impart | C |
| And yet somehow I've ever felt and thought | B |
| A joy there is that never can depart | C |
| As long as we are capable of feeling wishing | E |
| And that's to leave dull care behind and go a fishing | E |
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| II | A |
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| Some dream of wealth of place of fame | F |
| And fleeting shadows vainly they pursue | G |
| And some have sighed to win a deathless name | F |
| Where fields of carnage corpses thickly strew | G |
| And shrieks of agony are heard 'mid smoke and flame | F |
| But these are dizzy heights attained by few | G |
| So when Dame Fortune is her favors dishing | E |
| I hope that I'll get mine in ample time to go a fishing | E |
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| III | A |
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| Oh was there ever any sweeter dream | H |
| Or music with a tone that's more entrancing | E |
| Than just to wander where some mountain stream | H |
| Is o'er the rocks and polished pebbles dancing | E |
| And nothing short of heaven itself I ween | I |
| Is like the moment when his scales all glancing | E |
| You see the happy consummation of your wishing | E |
| And catch the very fish for which you have been fishing | E |
George W. Doneghy
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