Northern Pike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGBHIJKLMDKNOP QDRSETIBB| All right Try this | A |
| Then Every body | B |
| I know and care for | C |
| And every body | B |
| Else is going | D |
| To die in a loneliness | E |
| I can't imagine and a pain | F |
| I don't know We had | G |
| To go on living We | B |
| Untangled the net we slit | H |
| The body of this fish | I |
| Open from the hinge of the tail | J |
| To a place beneath the chin | K |
| I wish I could sing of | L |
| I would just as soon we let | M |
| The living go on living | D |
| An old poet whom we believe in | K |
| Said the same thing and so | N |
| We paused among the dark cattails and prayed | O |
| For the muskrats | P |
| For the ripples below their tails | Q |
| For the little movements that we knew the crawdads were making | D |
| under water | R |
| For the right hand wrist of my cousin who is a policeman | S |
| We prayed for the game warden's blindness | E |
| We prayed for the road home | T |
| We ate the fish | I |
| There must be something very beautiful in my body | B |
| I am so happy | B |
James Arlington Wright
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