In The Deep Channel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HCIC| Setting a trotline after sundown | A |
| if we went far enough away in the night | B |
| sometimes up out of deep water | C |
| would come a secret headed channel cat | D |
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| Eyes that were still eyes in the rush of darkness | E |
| flowing feelers noncommittal and black | F |
| and hidden in the fins those rasping bone daggers | G |
| with one spiking upward on its back | F |
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| We would come at daylight and find the line sag | H |
| the fishbelly gleam and the rush on the tether | C |
| to feel the swerve and the deep current | I |
| which tugged at the tree roots below the river | C |
William Stafford
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