The Crowd At The Ball Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FD GD CH IH DJ KD CL GM MN OP AD EC DD DD NF CQ| XXVI | A |
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| The crowd at the ball game | B |
| is moved uniformly | C |
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| by a spirit of uselessness | D |
| which delights them | E |
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| all the exciting detail | F |
| of the chase | D |
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| and the escape the error | G |
| the flash of genius | D |
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| all to no end save beauty | C |
| the eternal | H |
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| So in detail they the crowd | I |
| are beautiful | H |
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| for this | D |
| to be warned against | J |
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| saluted and defied | K |
| It is alive venomous | D |
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| it smiles grimly | C |
| its words cut | L |
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| The flashy female with her | G |
| mother gets it | M |
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| The Jew gets it straight it | M |
| is deadly terrifying | N |
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| It is the Inquisition the | O |
| Revolution | P |
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| It is beauty itself | A |
| that lives | D |
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| day by day in them | E |
| idly | C |
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| This is | D |
| the power of their faces | D |
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| It is summer it is the solstice | D |
| the crowd is | D |
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| cheering the crowd is laughing | N |
| in detail | F |
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| permanently seriously | C |
| without thought | Q |
William Carlos Williams
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