A Mad Fight Song For William S. Carpenter, 1966 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGH IGGDJK LMN OPQGR| Varus varus gib mir meine Legionen wieder | A |
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| Quick on my feet in those Novembers of my loneliness | B |
| I tossed a short pass | C |
| Almost the instant I got the ball right over the head | D |
| Of Barrel Terry before he knocked me cold | E |
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| When I woke I found myself crying out | F |
| Latin conjugations and the new snow falling | G |
| At the edge of a green field | H |
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| Lemoyne Crone had caught the pass while I lay | I |
| Unconscious and raging | G |
| Alone with the fire ghost of Catullus the contemptuous graces tossing | G |
| Garlands and hendecasyllabics over the head | D |
| Of Cornelius Nepos the mastodon | J |
| The huge volume | K |
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| At the edges of Southeast Asia this afternoon | L |
| The quarterbacks and the lines are beginning to fall | M |
| A spring snow | N |
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| And terrified young men | O |
| Quick on their feet | P |
| Lob one another s skulls across | Q |
| Wings of strange birds that are burning | G |
| Themselves alive | R |
James Arlington Wright
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