At Broad Ripple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHHII JJKKLLMM NNLLOOEE| Oh luxury Beyond the heat | A |
| And dust of town with dangling feet | A |
| Astride the rock below the dam | B |
| In the cool shadows where the calm | C |
| Rests on the stream again and all | D |
| Is silent save the waterfall | D |
| I bait my hook and cast my line | E |
| And feel the best of life is mine | E |
| - | |
| No high ambition can I claim | F |
| I angle not for lordly game | F |
| Of trout or bass or wary bream | G |
| A black perch reaches the extreme | G |
| Of my desires and goggle eyes | H |
| Are not a thing that I despise | H |
| A sunfish or a chub or a cat | I |
| A silver side yea even that | I |
| - | |
| In eloquent tranquility | J |
| The waters lisp and talk to me | J |
| Sometimes far out the surface breaks | K |
| As some proud bass an instant shakes | K |
| His glittering armor in the sun | L |
| And romping ripples one by one | L |
| Come dallyiong across the space | M |
| Where undulates my smiling face | M |
| - | |
| The river's story flowing by | N |
| Forever sweet to ear and eye | N |
| Forever tenderly begun | L |
| Forever new and never done | L |
| Thus lulled and sheltered in a shade | O |
| Where never feverish cares invade | O |
| I bait my hook and cast my line | E |
| And feel the best of life is mine | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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