A Ballad Of Baseball Burdens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD EFEFFCFD GHGHHDHD IJIJJDKD L MCM D| The burden of hard hitting Slug away | A |
| Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb | B |
| Else fandom shouteth Who said you could play | A |
| Back to the jasper league you minor slob | B |
| Swat hit connect line out goet on the job | B |
| Else you shall feel the brunt of fandom's ire | C |
| Biff bang it clout it hit it on the knob | B |
| This is the end of every fan's desire | D |
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| The burden of good pitching Curved or straight | E |
| Or in or out or haply up or down | F |
| To puzzle him that standeth by the plate | E |
| To lessen so to speak his bat renown | F |
| Like Christy Mathewson or Miner Brown | F |
| So pitch that every man can but admire | C |
| And offer you the freedom of the town | F |
| This is the end of every fan's desire | D |
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| The burden of loud cheering O the sounds | G |
| The tumult and the shouting from the throats | H |
| Of forty thousand at the Polo Grounds | G |
| Sitting ay standing sans their hats and coats | H |
| A mighty cheer that possibly denotes | H |
| That Cub or Pirate fat is in the fire | D |
| Or as H James would say We've got their goats | H |
| This is the end of every fan's desire | D |
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| The burden of a pennant O the hope | I |
| The tenuous hope the hope that's half a fear | J |
| The lengthy season and the boundless dope | I |
| And the bromidic Wait until next year | J |
| O dread disgrace of trailing in the rear | J |
| O Piece of Bunting flying high and higher | D |
| That next October it shall flutter here | K |
| This is the end of every fan's desire | D |
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| ENVOY | L |
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| Ah Fans let not the Quarry but the Chase | M |
| Be that to which most fondly we aspire | C |
| For us not Stake but Game not Goal but Race | M |
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| THIS is the end of every fan's desire | D |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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