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 J3

SEA SEA RIDERA
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The man who owned the bookstore was not magic He was not aB
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three legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountainC
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He was of course a Jew a retired merchant seamanC
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who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floatedD
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there day after day until death did not want him He had aB
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young wife a heart attack a Volkswagen and a home inE
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Marin County He liked the works of George Orwell RichardF
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Aldington and Edmund WilsonC
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He learned about life at sixteen first from DostoevskyG
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and then from the whores of New OrleansH
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The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyardsI
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Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like carsJ
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Most of the kooks were out of print and no one wanted toK
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read them any more and the people who had read the booksL
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had died or forgotten about them but through the organicM
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process of music the books had become virgins again TheyN
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wore their ancient copyrights like new maidenheadsL
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I went to the bookstore in the afternoons after I got offO
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work during that terrible year ofP
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He had a kitchen in the back of the store and he brewedQ
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cups of thick Turkish coffee in a copper pan I drank coffeeG
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and read old books and waited for the year to end He had aB
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small room above the kitchenC
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It looked down on the bookstore and had Chinese screensL
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in front of it The room contained a couch a glass cabinetR
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with Chinese things in it and a table and three chairs ThereS
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was a tiny bathroom fastened like a watch fob to the roomT
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I was sitting on a stool in the bookstore one afternoonU
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reading a book that was in the shape of a chalice The bookV
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had clear pages like gin and the first page in the book readW
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BillyG
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the KidX
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bornY
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NovemberA
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inE
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New YorkZ
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CityG
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The owner of the bookstore came up to me and put hisL
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arm on my shoulder and said Would you like to get laidA2
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His voice was very kindB2
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No I saidW
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You're wrong he said and then without saying anythingC2
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else he went out in front of the bookstore and stopped a pairS
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of total strangers a man and a woman He talked to them forD2
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a few moments I couldn't hear what he was saying He pointedD
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at me in the bookstore The woman nodded her head andE2
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then the man nodded his headW
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They came into the bookstoreD2
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I was embarrassed I could not leave the bookstore becauseL
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they were entering by the only door so I decided to goF2
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upstairs and go to the toilet I got up abruptly and walkedG2
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to the back of the bookstore and went upstairs to the bathroomT
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and they followed after me I could hear them on the stairsL
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I waited for a long time in the bathroom and they waitedD
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an equally long time in the other room They never spokeH2
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When I came out of the bathroom the woman was lying nakedD
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on the couch and the man was sitting in a chair with hisL
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hat on his lapI2
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Don't worry about him the girl said These thingsL
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make no difference to him He's rich He has RollsL
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Royces The girl was very pretty and her body was like aB
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clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocksL
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of bone and hidden nervesL
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Come to me she said And come inside me for we areJ2
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Aquarius and I love youK
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I looked at the man sitting in the chair He was not smilingC2
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and he did not look sadK2
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I took off my shoes and all my clothes The man did notL2
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say a wordF
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The girl's body moved ever so slightly from side to sideM2
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There was nothing else I could do for my body was likeN2
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birds sitting on a telephone wire strung out down the worldO2
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clouds tossing the wires carefullyG
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I laid the girlP2
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It was like the eternal th second when it becomes a minuteR
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and then looks kind of sheepishQ2
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Good the girl said and kissed me on the faceL
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The man sat there without speaking or moving or sendingC2
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out any emotion into the room I guess he was rich and ownedR2
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Rolls RoycesL
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Afterwards the girl got dressed and she and the man leftS2
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They walked down the stairs and on their way out I heardF
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him say his first wordsL
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Would you like to go to Emie's for dinnerA
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I don't know the girl said It's a little early to thinkT2
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about dinnerA
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Then I heard the door close and they were gone I gotL2
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dressed and went downstairs The flesh about my body feltU2
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soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional backgroundV2
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musicM
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The owner of the bookstore was sitting at his desk behindB2
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the counter I' tell you what happened up there he saidW
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in a beautiful anti three legged crow voice in an anti dandelionC
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side of the mountain voiceL
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What I saidW
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You fought in the Spanish Civil War You were a youngW2
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Communist from Cleveland Ohio She was a painter A NewK
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York Jew who was sightseeing in the Spanish Civil War as ifX2
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it were the Mardi Gras in New Orleans being acted out byY2
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Greek statuesL
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She was drawing a picture of a dead anarchist when youK
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met her She asked you to stand beside the anarchist and actZ2
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as if you had killed him You slapped her across the faceL
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and said something that would be embarrassing for me toK
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repeatA3
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You both fell very much in loveP
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Once while you were at the front she read Anatomy ofP
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Melancholy and did drawings of a lemonC
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Your love for each other was mostly spiritual NeitherA
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one of you performed like millionaires in bedW
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When Barcelona fell you and she flew to England andE2
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then took a ship back to New York Your love for each otherA
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remained in Spain It was only a war love You loved onlyG
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yourselves loving each other in Spain during the war OnB3
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the Atlantic you were different toward each other and becameC3
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every day more and more like people lost from each otherA
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Every wave on the Atlantic was like a dead seagull draggingC2
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its driftwood artillery from horizon to horizonC
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When the ship bumped up against America you departedD
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without saying anything and never saw each other again TheB
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last I heard of you you were still living in PhiladelphiaB
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That's what you think happened up there I saidW
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Partly he said Yes that's part of itD3
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He took out his pipe and filled it with tobacco and lit itD3
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Do you want me to tell you what else happened up thereS
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he saidW
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Go aheadW
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You crossed the border into Mexico he said YouK
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rode your horse into a small town The people knew whoK
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you were and they were afraid of you They knew you hadK2
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killed many men with that gun you wore at your side TheB
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town itself was so small that it didn't have a priestE3
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When the rurales saw you they left the town Tough asL
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they were they did not want to have anything to do with youK
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The rurales leftS2
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You became the most powerful man in townF3
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You were seduced by a thirteen year old girl and youK
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and she lived together in an adobe hut and practically allG3
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you did was make loveP
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She was slender and had long dark hair You made loveP
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standing sitting lying on the dirt floor with pigs and chickensL
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around you The walls the floor and even the roof of theB
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hut were coated with your sperm and her comeH3
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You slept on the floor at night and used your sperm forD2
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a pillow and her come for a blanketR
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The people in the town were so afraid of you that theyN
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could do nothingC2
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After a while she started going around town without anyG
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clothes on and the people of the town said that it was not aB
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good thing and when you started going around without anyG
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clothes and when both of you began making love on the backI3
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of your horse in the middle of the zocalo the people of theB
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town became so afraid that they abandoned the town It'sL
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been abandoned ever since People won't live thereS
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Neither of you lived to be twenty one It was not necesL
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saryS
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See I do know what happened upstairs he said HeG
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smiled atJ3

Richard Brautigan



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