The Football Match Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDBDEDDA FGDDDBDHA EBIDBJDHKHL KMDHNDHHA| I | A |
| O wild kaleidoscopic panorama of jaculatory arms and legs | B |
| The twisting twining turning tussling throwing thrusting | C |
| throttling tugging thumping the tightening thews | B |
| The tearing of tangled trousers the jut of giant calves protuberant | D |
| The wriggleness the wormlike snaky movement and life of it | D |
| The insertion of strong men in the mud the wallowing the stamping with thick shoes | B |
| The rowdyism and eacute lan the slugging and scraping the cowboy Homeric ferocity | D |
| Ah well kicked red legs Hit her up you muddy little hero you | E |
| The bleeding noses the shins the knuckles abraded | D |
| That's the way to make men Go it you border ruffians I like ye | D |
| II | A |
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| Only two sorts of men are any good I wouldn't give a cotton hat for no other | F |
| The Poet and the Plug Ugly They are picturesque O but ain't they | G |
| These college chaps these bouncing fighters from M'Gill and Toronto | D |
| Are all right I must have a fighter a bully somewhat of a desperado | D |
| Of course I prefer them raw uneducated unspoiled by book rot | D |
| I reckon these young fellows these howling Kickapoos of the puddle these boys | B |
| Have been uneducated to an undemocratic and feudal aristocratic extent | D |
| Lord how they can kick though Another man slugged there | H |
| III | A |
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| Unnumbered festoons of pretty Canadian girls I salute you | E |
| Howl away you non playing encouragers of the kickers | B |
| Rah Rah Rah Rah Rah Rah M'Gill | I |
| Rah Rah Rah Sis Boom Toronto Lusty throated give it | D |
| O wild tumultuous multitudinous shindy Well this is the boss | B |
| This is worth coming twenty miles to see Personally I haven't had so much fun | J |
| since I was vaccinated | D |
| I wonder if the Doctor spectates it Here is something beyond his plesiosauri | H |
| Pure physical glow and exultation this of abundantest muscle | K |
| I wish John Sullivan were here | H |
| IV | L |
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| O the kicking stamping punching the gore and the glory of battle | K |
| Kick kick kick kick kick kick Will you kick | M |
| You kickers scoop up the mud steam plough the field | D |
| Fall all over yourselves squirm out Look at that pile driver of a full back there | H |
| Run leg it hang on to the ball say you big chump don't you kill that little chap | N |
| When you are about it | D |
| Well I'd like to know what a touch down is then Draw | H |
| Where's your draw | H |
| Yer lie | A |
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