Tramp And Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FDGG HHDD HIDD| A hungry tramp did long for dish | A |
| And he stole a big bunch of fish | A |
| But he full soon did come to grief | B |
| He was quick captured as a thief | B |
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| And brought before the magistrate | C |
| So judge he would pronounce his fate | C |
| Judge asked him how he came by fish | A |
| The thief said for them he did wish | A |
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| The best fish ever came from brook | D |
| I own my Lord I did them hook | D |
| Said constable he speaks what's true | E |
| And you must give the devil his due | E |
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| Then judge did constable rebuke | F |
| He owns fish if he did them hook | D |
| He has not broken any clause | G |
| I know of in our fishery laws | G |
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| Unless you can show this reason | H |
| He has hooked them out of season | H |
| Your duty you have thus mistook | D |
| For man had right the fish to hook | D |
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| Fishing here it is not treason | H |
| Him you had no right to seize on | I |
| And when the poor man did fish hook | D |
| He had a right the same to cook | D |
James Mcintyre
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