At The Ball Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EC FC BG HG CI JC BK FL LM NO PC DB CC CC ME BQ| The crowd at the ball game | A |
| is moved uniformly | B |
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| by a spirit of uselessness | C |
| which delights them | D |
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| all the exciting detail | E |
| of the chase | C |
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| and the escape the error | F |
| the flash of genius | C |
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| all to no end save beauty | B |
| the eternal | G |
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| So in detail they the crowd | H |
| are beautiful | G |
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| for this | C |
| to be warned against | I |
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| saluted and defied | J |
| It is alive venomous | C |
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| it smiles grimly | B |
| its words cut | K |
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| The flashy female with her | F |
| mother gets it | L |
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| The Jew gets it straight it | L |
| is deadly terrifying | M |
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| It is the Inquisition the | N |
| Revolution | O |
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| It is beauty itself | P |
| that lives | C |
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| day by day in them | D |
| idly | B |
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| This is | C |
| the power of their faces | C |
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| It is summer it is the solstice | C |
| the crowd is | C |
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| cheering the crowd is laughing | M |
| in detail | E |
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| permanently seriously | B |
| without thought | Q |
William Carlos Williams
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