An Angler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIGGJK K| Now as an angler melancholy standing | A |
| Upon a green bank yielding room for landing | A |
| A wriggling yellow worm thrust on his hook | B |
| Now in the midst he throws then in a nook | B |
| Here pulls his line there throws it in again | C |
| Mendeth his cork and bait but all in vain | D |
| He long stands viewing of the curled stream | E |
| At last a hungry pike or well grown bream | E |
| Snatch at the worm and hasting fast away | F |
| He knowing it a fish of stubborn sway | F |
| Pulls up his rod but soft as having skill | G |
| Wherewith the hook fast holds the fish's gill | G |
| Then all his line he freely yieldeth him | H |
| Whilst furiously all up and down doth swim | H |
| Th' insnared fish here on the top doth scud | I |
| There underneath the banks then in the mud | I |
| And with his frantic fits so scares the shoal | G |
| That each one takes his hide or starting hole | G |
| By this the pike clean wearied underneath | J |
| A willow lies | K |
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| From Britannia's Pastorals | K |
William Browne
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