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Casey at the Bat

Rhyme Scheme and Types of Poetry
Casey At The Bat
1. What type of poem is Casey at the Bat?

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2. What organizational structure is used in this poem? ________________________________

3. What is the rhyme scheme for this poem?

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4. Did you expect the poem to end up the way it did? Why/why not?
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5. Why do you think this poem has remained one of the most popular sports poems to this day, even though it was
written more than 100 years ago?
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Label the rhyme scheme on these poems:
6. I'm Nobody! Who are you?
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Are you Nobody too?
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Then there's a pair of us?
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Don't tell! they'd advertise you know! ___
How dreary to be Somebody!
How public like a Frog
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring Bog!
~Emily Dickinson

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7. Hear the mellow wedding bells

Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
~The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe

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8. Create an alternate ending stanza to the poem as if Casey actually hit the ball. Be sure to follow the same rhyme
scheme as the original.
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