Price Lake: 1961 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJHKLMHHNKOP QRJSTUVWAXWY| Mouths shackled dead or dying | A |
| the bluegills rainbows and browns | B |
| dangled from shiny metal | C |
| my father had thrown like chain | D |
| into the shallows noon sun | E |
| shivering the lake's surface | F |
| like mirage as snake doctors | G |
| zigged and zagged deep blue needles | H |
| threading air My bobber snagged | I |
| again in reeds hot and tired | J |
| I entered a grabble of briars | H |
| tightroped a creek board to where | K |
| my parents lay on a bank | L |
| blanketed by cove moss each | M |
| turned to other my mother's | H |
| hand tucked inside my father's | H |
| half unbuttoned shirt his hand | N |
| brushing ground lint from her hair | K |
| and in that moment I knew | O |
| I did not belong to them | P |
| not in that moment and though | Q |
| the gift of that summer took | R |
| years to unveil something stirred | J |
| even that day when they came | S |
| back to me my mother's waist | T |
| cradled by my father's arm | U |
| his free hand reaching to lift | V |
| the stringer I remember | W |
| how it surfaced glistening | A |
| like a crystal chandelier | X |
| the fish shimmering color | W |
| as if raised in prism light | Y |
Ron Rash
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