Part 8 Of Trout Fishing In America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E D F D G H I E J K E L M E N E E O E P E E E E E Q E L C E D E E L E R S E E Q M T U D C E C V C C E W E L X C A Y T O O D B D Z A2 D W E X E E B2 E M C2 C E C X X D2 E X X X E E E2 E I E L| A RETURN TO THE COVER OF | A |
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| THIS BOOK | B |
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| Dear Trout Fishing in America | C |
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| I met your friend Fritz in Washington Square He told me | D |
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| to tell you that his case went to a jury and that he was acquit | E |
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| ted by the jury | D |
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| He said that it was important for me to say that his case | F |
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| went to a jury and that he was acquitted by the jury | D |
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| said it again | G |
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| He looked in good shape He was sitting in the sun There's | H |
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| an old San Francisco saying that goes quot It's better to rest in | I |
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| Washington Square than in the California Adult Authority quot | E |
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| How are things in New York | J |
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| Yours | K |
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| quot An Ardent Admirer quot | E |
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| Dear Ardent Admirer | L |
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| It's good to hear that Fritz isn't in jail He was very wor | M |
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| ried about it The last time I was in San Francisco he told | E |
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| me he thought the odds were in favor of him going away | N |
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| I told him to get a good lawyer It appears that he followed | E |
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| my advice and also was very lucky That's always a good | E |
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| combination | O |
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| You asked about New York and New York is very hot | E |
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| I'm visiting some friends a young burglar and his wife | P |
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| He's unemployed and his wife is working as a cocktail wait | E |
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| ress He's been looking for work but I fear the worst | E |
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| It was so hot last night that I slept with a wet sheet wrapped | E |
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| around myself trying to keep cool I felt like a mental patient | E |
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| I woke up in the middle of the night and the room was filled | E |
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| with steam rising off the sheet and there was jungle stuff | Q |
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| abandoned equipment and tropical flowers on the floor and | E |
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| on the furniture | L |
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| I took the sheet into the bathroom and plopped it into the | C |
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| tub and turned the cold water on it Their dog came in and | E |
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| started barking at me | D |
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| The dog barked so loud that the bathroom was soon filled | E |
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| with dead people One of them wanted to use my wet sheet | E |
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| for a shroud I said no and we got into a big argument over | L |
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| it and woke up the Puerto Ricans in the next apartment and | E |
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| they began pounding on the walls | R |
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| The dead people all left in a huff quot We know when we're | S |
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| not wanted quot one of them said | E |
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| quot You're damn tootin' quot I said | E |
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| I've had enough | Q |
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| I' m going to get out of New York Tomorrow I'm leaving for | M |
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| Alaska I'm going to find an ice cold creek near the Arctic | T |
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| where that strange beautiful moss grows and spend a week | U |
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| with the grayling My address will be Trout Fishing in Ameri | D |
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| ca c o General Delivery Fairbanks Alaska | C |
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| Your friend | E |
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| Trout Fishing in America | C |
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| THE LAKE JOSEPHUS DAYS | V |
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| We left Little Redfish for Lake Josephus traveling along the | C |
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| good names from Stanley to Capehorn to Seafoam to the | C |
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| Rapid River up Float Creek past the Greyhound Mine and | E |
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| then to Lake Josephus and a few days after that up the trail | W |
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| to Hell diver Lake with the baby on my shoulders and a good | E |
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| limit of trout waiting in Hell diver | L |
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| Knowing the trout would wait there like airplane tickets | X |
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| for us to come we stopped at Mushroom Springs and had a | C |
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| drink of cold shadowy water and some photographs taken of | A |
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| the baby and me sitting together on a log | Y |
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| I hope someday we'll have enough money to get those pic | T |
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| tures developed Sometimes I get curious about them won | O |
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| dering if they will turn out all right They are in suspension | O |
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| now like seeds in a package I'll be older when they are de | D |
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| veloped and easier to please Look there's the baby Look | B |
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| there's Mushroom Springs Look there's me | D |
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| I caught the limit of trout within an hour of reaching Hell | Z |
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| diver and my woman in all the excitement of good fishing | A2 |
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| let the baby fall asleep directly in the sun and when the baby | D |
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| woke up she puked and I carried her back down the trail | W |
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| My woman trailed silently behind carrying the rods and | E |
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| the fish The baby puked a couple more times thimblefuls | X |
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| of gentle lavender vomit but still it got on my clothes and | E |
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| her face was hot and flushed | E |
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| We stopped at Mushroom Springs I gave her a small | B2 |
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| drink of water not too much and rinsed the vomit taste out | E |
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| of her mouth Then I wiped the puke off my clothes and for | M |
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| some strange reason suddenly it was a perfect time there | C2 |
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| at Mushroom Springs to wonder whatever happened to the | C |
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| Zoot suit | E |
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| Along with World War II and the Andrews Sisters the | C |
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| Zoot suit had been very popular in the early s I guess | X |
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| they were all just passing fads | X |
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| A sick baby on the trail down from Hell diver July | D2 |
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| is probably a more important question It cannot be left to | E |
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| go on forever a sick baby to take her place in the galaxy | X |
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| among the comets bound to pass close to the earth every | X |
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| years | X |
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| She stopped puking after Mushroom Springs and I carried | E |
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| her back down along the path in and out of the shadows and | E |
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| across other nameless springs and by the time we got down | E2 |
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| to Lake Josephus she was all right | E |
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| She was soon running around with a big cutthroat trout in | I |
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| her hands carrying it like a harp on her way to a concert | E |
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| ten minutes late with no bus in sight and no taxi either | L |
Richard Brautigan
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