The "slugging"-match Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG HIHIJKJK LMLMJNJN AOAOEPEP| A first class professional fight | A |
| I'm really doing the town | B |
| There were thousands on thousands to night | A |
| To see a man knock a man down | B |
| Two dollars I willingly paid | C |
| To view all this muscle and brawn | D |
| 'Twas rather too much I'm afraid | C |
| Or seemed so the minute 'twas gone | D |
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| And yet 'tis a study to see | E |
| The rage gladiatorial of Rome | F |
| And grim Spanish bull baiting glee | E |
| Adopt an American home | F |
| That blood thirsty murderous spite | A |
| Men loudly condemn and possess | G |
| Besieged New York City last night | A |
| With first class financial success | G |
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| Hands gloved to comply with the law | H |
| Gloves hard to comply with the crowd | I |
| Fists savage as murder could draw | H |
| Cheers heavy and fervent and loud | I |
| Stern hisses and shoutings of Woman | J |
| When either too tender they found | K |
| Tremendous applause when a foeman | J |
| Dropped more than half dead on the ground | K |
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| 'Twas the soul's blackest hell woven fibre | L |
| All thrilling intensely and fast | M |
| The curse of the Tagus and Tiber | L |
| Arrived in New York Bay at last | M |
| And victor and vanquished I learn | J |
| Came off with more glittering spoil | N |
| Than teacher or preacher could earn | J |
| In years of the hardest of toil | N |
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| A spectacle pleasing and bright | A |
| Full many good people delighting | O |
| So many good men love a fight | A |
| When somebody else does the fighting | O |
| And 'tis shameful we mildly agree | E |
| And shout our complainings afar | P |
| But the facts are no worse than are we | E |
| They show to us just what we are | P |
William Mckendree Carleton
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