Cheese Curd For Bait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABC DDEE FFAA GHAA IJKK LLMM MMNN| The following adventure was participated in by Mr J Podmore and Mr W D Grant at Matheson's Cold Spring Cheese Factory in Zorra | A |
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| Cheese buyers in hours of leisure | A |
| Combine business with pleasure | A |
| And when they wish to go abroad | B |
| They take their gun and fishing rod | C |
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| This tale is true we pledge our word | D |
| They baited hook with a piece of curd | D |
| And let the rod hang from the boat | E |
| While curd and hook on pond did float | E |
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| And then they start for sport and fun | F |
| To try their luck with the shot gun | F |
| And quick they raised from their cover | A |
| Then brought low eight brace of plover | A |
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| Now to the pond they do return | G |
| But loss of rod they have to mourn | H |
| They see it rushing through the water | A |
| And wonder what can be the matter | A |
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| But the courage of young Grant | I |
| It did not for a moment daunt | J |
| Though rod it now is far beyond | K |
| He plunged into deep cold spring pond | K |
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| And seized his rod and then drew out | L |
| A beauteous seven pound trout | L |
| Which had grown from the seed | M |
| From spawn of California breed | M |
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| And Californian in its greed | M |
| On the sweet curd wished to feed | M |
| But alas for it's sad fate | N |
| It swallowed hook along with bait | N |
James Mcintyre
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