The Microscopic Trout And The Machiavelian Fisherman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHGII JKJKLMNM IOIOIPMP IQRQSTIT| A fisher was casting his flies in a brook | A |
| According to laws of such sciences | B |
| With a patented reel and a patented hook | A |
| And a number of other appliances | B |
| And the thirty fifth cast which he vowed was the last | C |
| It was figured as close as a decimal | D |
| Brought suddenly out of the water a trout | E |
| Of measurements infinitesimal | D |
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| This fish had a way that would win him a place | F |
| In the best and most polished society | G |
| And he looked at the fisherman full in the face | F |
| With a visible air of anxiety | G |
| He murmered Alas from his place in the grass | H |
| And then when he'd twisted and wriggled he | G |
| Remarked in a pet that his heart was upset | I |
| And digestion all higgledy piggledy | I |
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| I request he observed to be instantly flung | J |
| Once again in the pool I've been living in | K |
| The fisherman said You will tire out your tongue | J |
| Do you see any signs of my giving in | K |
| Put you back in the pool Why you fatuous fool | L |
| I have eaten much smaller and thinner fish | M |
| You're not salmon or sole but I think on the whole | N |
| You're a fairly respectable dinner fish | M |
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| The fisherman's cook tried her hand on the trout | I |
| And with various herbs she embellished him | O |
| He was lovely to see and there isn't a doubt | I |
| That the fisherman's family relished him | O |
| And to prove that they did both his wife and his kid | I |
| Devoured the trout with much eagerness | P |
| Avowing no dish could compare with that fish | M |
| Notwithstanding his singular meagreness | P |
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| And THE MORAL you'll find is although it is kind | I |
| To grant favors that people are wishing for | Q |
| Still a dinner you'll lack if you chance to throw back | R |
| In the pool little trout that you're fishing for | Q |
| If their pleading you spurn you will certainly learn | S |
| That herbs will deliciously vary 'em | T |
| It is needless to state that a trout on a plate | I |
| Beats several in the aquarium | T |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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