Wrestling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDEF GHIC CJKDILM JNOPCQ RS| At last came threshing time the manly season | A |
| We kept the thresher thundering by daylight | B |
| And rested all the sweeter after dark | C |
| Telling of tales and washing in the river | D |
| But one there was some twenty miles a stranger | D |
| Who boasted that he was a mighty wrestler | D |
| And had not met that valiant pair of shoulders | E |
| That he could not put down | F |
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| We had a champion there He looked and listened | G |
| He measured off his man he made his mind up | H |
| And thus he brought great honor to his county | I |
| 'My friend I've heard you bragging heard you braying | C |
| And now I say for God's sake come and wrestle ' | - |
| And thus appealed the other came for God's sake | C |
| And they did wrestle | J |
| They sprang they gripped they strained and rocked and twisted | K |
| They pounded much good sod to dust and powder | D |
| They ripped the garments off each other vainly | I |
| And showed us many naked bulging muscles | L |
| And still were even | M |
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| But while the tide of battle ran so equal | J |
| I heard a sound I took it for a voice | N |
| I almost saw it spitting out a passage | O |
| Between the haggard jaws of my poor hero | P |
| The voice as of a man almost despairing | C |
| Hoping again though all his hopes had failed | Q |
| 'By God I'll have you down in one more minute ' | - |
| And it was as he said for in a minute | R |
| He had him down by God | S |
John Crowe Ransom
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