How A Fisherman Corked Up His Foe In A Jar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MJMJNONO PQPQRIRI STSTUCUC VWVWA fisherman lived on the shore | A |
It's a habit that fishers affect | B |
And his life was a hideous bore | A |
He had nothing to do but collect | B |
Continual harvests of seaweed and shells | C |
Which he stuck upon photograph frames | D |
To sell to the guests in the summer hotels | C |
With the quite inappropriate names | D |
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He would wander along by the edge | E |
Of the sea and I know for a fact | F |
From the pools with a portable dredge | E |
He would curious creatures extract | F |
And during the season he always took lots | G |
Of tourists out fishing for bass | H |
And showed them politely impossible spots | G |
In the culpable way of his class | H |
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It happened one day as afar | I |
He roved on the glistening strand | J |
That he chanced on a curious jar | I |
Which lay on a hummock of sand | J |
It was closed at the mouth with a cork and a seal | K |
And over the top there was tied | L |
A cloth and the fisherman couldn't but feel | K |
That he ought to see what was inside | L |
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But what were his fear and surprise | M |
When the stopper he held in his hand | J |
For a genie of singular size | M |
Appeared in a trice on the sand | J |
Who said in the roughest and rudest of tones | N |
A monster you've foolishly freed | O |
I shall simply make way with you body and bones | N |
And that with phenomenal speed | O |
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The fisherman looked in his face | P |
And answered him boldly My friend | Q |
How you ever were packed in that space | P |
Is something I don't comprehend | Q |
Pray do me the favor to show me how you | R |
Can do it as large as you are | I |
The genie retorted That's just what I'll do | R |
And promptly re ntered the jar | I |
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The fisherman corked him up tight | S |
The genie protested and raved | T |
But for all he accomplished he might | S |
As well all his shouting have saved | T |
And whenever a generous bonus is paid | U |
The fisherman willingly tells | C |
The singular tale of this trick that he played | U |
To the guests in the summer hotels | C |
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The Moral When fortune you strike | V |
And you've slipped through a dangerous crack | W |
Get as forward as ever you like | V |
But never oh never get back | W |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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