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Part 8 Of Trout Fishing In America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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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