A Paumanok Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFBGCB| TWO boats with nets lying off the sea beach quite still | A |
| Ten fishermen waiting they discover a thick school of mossbonkers | B |
| they drop the join'd seine ends in the water | C |
| The boats separate and row off each on its rounding course to the | D |
| beach enclosing the mossbonkers | B |
| The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore | E |
| Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats others stand ankle deep | F |
| in the water pois'd on strong legs | B |
| The boats partly drawn up the water slapping against them | G |
| Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows well out from the water | C |
| the green back'd spotted mossbonkers | B |
Walt Whitman
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