Part 3 Of Trout Fishing In America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C D B E F C G H I J K L M N L O P Q G B C L R S T U V W G X Y A E Z G L A2 B2 W C2 S D2 D E2 W D2 L F2 G2 T L D H2 D L I2 L L B L L J2 K C2 K2 L2 F M2 N2 O2 G P2 R Q2 L C2 R2 L S2 F L A T2 A L2 U2 V2 M B2 W C L W W2 K X2 Y2 L K Z2 L K A3 P P C A W E2 A G B3 C3 A C2 C D B B W D3 D3 S W W K K K2 B E3 L K S2 F3 K G3 P P L B H3 D2 R N C2 G B G I3 B L S L S G J3SEA SEA RIDER | A |
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The man who owned the bookstore was not magic He was not a | B |
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three legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain | C |
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He was of course a Jew a retired merchant seaman | C |
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who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floated | D |
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there day after day until death did not want him He had a | B |
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young wife a heart attack a Volkswagen and a home in | E |
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Marin County He liked the works of George Orwell Richard | F |
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Aldington and Edmund Wilson | C |
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He learned about life at sixteen first from Dostoevsky | G |
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and then from the whores of New Orleans | H |
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The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards | I |
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Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars | J |
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Most of the kooks were out of print and no one wanted to | K |
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read them any more and the people who had read the books | L |
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had died or forgotten about them but through the organic | M |
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process of music the books had become virgins again They | N |
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wore their ancient copyrights like new maidenheads | L |
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I went to the bookstore in the afternoons after I got off | O |
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work during that terrible year of | P |
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He had a kitchen in the back of the store and he brewed | Q |
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cups of thick Turkish coffee in a copper pan I drank coffee | G |
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and read old books and waited for the year to end He had a | B |
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small room above the kitchen | C |
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It looked down on the bookstore and had Chinese screens | L |
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in front of it The room contained a couch a glass cabinet | R |
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with Chinese things in it and a table and three chairs There | S |
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was a tiny bathroom fastened like a watch fob to the room | T |
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I was sitting on a stool in the bookstore one afternoon | U |
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reading a book that was in the shape of a chalice The book | V |
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had clear pages like gin and the first page in the book read | W |
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Billy | G |
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the Kid | X |
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born | Y |
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November | A |
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in | E |
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New York | Z |
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City | G |
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The owner of the bookstore came up to me and put his | L |
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arm on my shoulder and said Would you like to get laid | A2 |
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His voice was very kind | B2 |
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No I said | W |
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You're wrong he said and then without saying anything | C2 |
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else he went out in front of the bookstore and stopped a pair | S |
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of total strangers a man and a woman He talked to them for | D2 |
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a few moments I couldn't hear what he was saying He pointed | D |
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at me in the bookstore The woman nodded her head and | E2 |
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then the man nodded his head | W |
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They came into the bookstore | D2 |
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I was embarrassed I could not leave the bookstore because | L |
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they were entering by the only door so I decided to go | F2 |
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upstairs and go to the toilet I got up abruptly and walked | G2 |
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to the back of the bookstore and went upstairs to the bathroom | T |
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and they followed after me I could hear them on the stairs | L |
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I waited for a long time in the bathroom and they waited | D |
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an equally long time in the other room They never spoke | H2 |
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When I came out of the bathroom the woman was lying naked | D |
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on the couch and the man was sitting in a chair with his | L |
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hat on his lap | I2 |
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Don't worry about him the girl said These things | L |
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make no difference to him He's rich He has Rolls | L |
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Royces The girl was very pretty and her body was like a | B |
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clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks | L |
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of bone and hidden nerves | L |
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Come to me she said And come inside me for we are | J2 |
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Aquarius and I love you | K |
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I looked at the man sitting in the chair He was not smiling | C2 |
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and he did not look sad | K2 |
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I took off my shoes and all my clothes The man did not | L2 |
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say a word | F |
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The girl's body moved ever so slightly from side to side | M2 |
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There was nothing else I could do for my body was like | N2 |
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birds sitting on a telephone wire strung out down the world | O2 |
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clouds tossing the wires carefully | G |
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I laid the girl | P2 |
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It was like the eternal th second when it becomes a minute | R |
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and then looks kind of sheepish | Q2 |
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Good the girl said and kissed me on the face | L |
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The man sat there without speaking or moving or sending | C2 |
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out any emotion into the room I guess he was rich and owned | R2 |
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Rolls Royces | L |
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Afterwards the girl got dressed and she and the man left | S2 |
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They walked down the stairs and on their way out I heard | F |
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him say his first words | L |
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Would you like to go to Emie's for dinner | A |
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I don't know the girl said It's a little early to think | T2 |
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about dinner | A |
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Then I heard the door close and they were gone I got | L2 |
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dressed and went downstairs The flesh about my body felt | U2 |
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soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional background | V2 |
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music | M |
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The owner of the bookstore was sitting at his desk behind | B2 |
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the counter I' tell you what happened up there he said | W |
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in a beautiful anti three legged crow voice in an anti dandelion | C |
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side of the mountain voice | L |
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What I said | W |
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You fought in the Spanish Civil War You were a young | W2 |
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Communist from Cleveland Ohio She was a painter A New | K |
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York Jew who was sightseeing in the Spanish Civil War as if | X2 |
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it were the Mardi Gras in New Orleans being acted out by | Y2 |
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Greek statues | L |
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She was drawing a picture of a dead anarchist when you | K |
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met her She asked you to stand beside the anarchist and act | Z2 |
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as if you had killed him You slapped her across the face | L |
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and said something that would be embarrassing for me to | K |
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repeat | A3 |
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You both fell very much in love | P |
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Once while you were at the front she read Anatomy of | P |
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Melancholy and did drawings of a lemon | C |
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Your love for each other was mostly spiritual Neither | A |
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one of you performed like millionaires in bed | W |
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When Barcelona fell you and she flew to England and | E2 |
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then took a ship back to New York Your love for each other | A |
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remained in Spain It was only a war love You loved only | G |
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yourselves loving each other in Spain during the war On | B3 |
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the Atlantic you were different toward each other and became | C3 |
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every day more and more like people lost from each other | A |
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Every wave on the Atlantic was like a dead seagull dragging | C2 |
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its driftwood artillery from horizon to horizon | C |
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When the ship bumped up against America you departed | D |
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without saying anything and never saw each other again The | B |
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last I heard of you you were still living in Philadelphia | B |
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That's what you think happened up there I said | W |
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Partly he said Yes that's part of it | D3 |
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He took out his pipe and filled it with tobacco and lit it | D3 |
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Do you want me to tell you what else happened up there | S |
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he said | W |
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Go ahead | W |
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You crossed the border into Mexico he said You | K |
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rode your horse into a small town The people knew who | K |
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you were and they were afraid of you They knew you had | K2 |
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killed many men with that gun you wore at your side The | B |
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town itself was so small that it didn't have a priest | E3 |
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When the rurales saw you they left the town Tough as | L |
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they were they did not want to have anything to do with you | K |
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The rurales left | S2 |
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You became the most powerful man in town | F3 |
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You were seduced by a thirteen year old girl and you | K |
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and she lived together in an adobe hut and practically all | G3 |
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you did was make love | P |
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She was slender and had long dark hair You made love | P |
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standing sitting lying on the dirt floor with pigs and chickens | L |
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around you The walls the floor and even the roof of the | B |
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hut were coated with your sperm and her come | H3 |
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You slept on the floor at night and used your sperm for | D2 |
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a pillow and her come for a blanket | R |
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The people in the town were so afraid of you that they | N |
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could do nothing | C2 |
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After a while she started going around town without any | G |
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clothes on and the people of the town said that it was not a | B |
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good thing and when you started going around without any | G |
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clothes and when both of you began making love on the back | I3 |
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of your horse in the middle of the zocalo the people of the | B |
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town became so afraid that they abandoned the town It's | L |
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been abandoned ever since People won't live there | S |
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Neither of you lived to be twenty one It was not neces | L |
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sary | S |
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See I do know what happened upstairs he said He | G |
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smiled at | J3 |
Richard Brautigan
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