Poet As Fisherman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFBGH IJKLMFNMOPQR SBB ITUVVWRX IYBYBZAB| I fish for words | A |
| to say what I fish for | B |
| half catch sometimes | C |
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| I have caught little pan fish flashing sunlight | D |
| yellow perch crappies blue gills | E |
| lighthearted reeled them in | F |
| filed them on stringers on the shore | B |
| A nice mess we called them | G |
| and ate with our fingers laughing | H |
| - | |
| Once dreaming of fish in far off waters | I |
| I hooked a two foot carp in Michigan | J |
| on nylon line so fine | K |
| a fellow fisher shook his head | L |
| He'll break it sure he'll roll on it and get away | M |
| A quarter hour it took to bring him in | F |
| back and forth toward my net | N |
| syllable by syllable I let him have his way | M |
| till he lay flopping on the grass | O |
| beside no other himself enough in size | P |
| he fed the three of us each differently | Q |
| new strategies of hook leader line and rod | R |
| - | |
| Working well I am a deep water man | S |
| a Daredevil silver wobbler | B |
| my lure for lake trout in midsummer | B |
| - | |
| Oh I have tried the moon thermometers | I |
| the bait and time and place all by the rule | T |
| fishing for the masterpiece | U |
| the imperial muskellunge in Minnesota | V |
| the peerless pike in Canada | V |
| I have propped a well thumbed book | W |
| against the butt of my favorite rod | R |
| and fished from my heart | X |
| - | |
| Yet for my labors | I |
| all I have to show | Y |
| are tactics lore | B |
| so little I know | Y |
| of that pea sized brain I am casting for | B |
| to think it could swim | Z |
| with the phantom words | A |
| that lure me to this shore | B |
James A. Emanuel
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