Casey At The Bat Poem Analysis

Casey at the Bat is a poem about baseball that was by Ernest L. Thayer. The format is a sonnet where there are 4 lines in each stanza. The rhyme scheme for this poem is “AA BB”. This is a traditional scheme for a ballad. This poem is like a miniature story since it adds dialogue from characters in the poem. I really enjoy this poem since it adds a sense of excitement into what will happen when Casey goes up. This poem makes me feel a bit nostalgic since I read this poem in my first year of High School. We would have to do worksheets on analyzing the poem such as the rhyme scheme or the vocabulary. To an Athlete Dying Young was written in 1896 by A.E. Houseman. The rhyme scheme in this poem is a bit different. The words seen in the poem may seem to rhyme but some do not. For example, the second stanza, the ending words for the first two lines are “come” and “home”. Those …show more content…
The first one I am going to talk about is “The Base Stealer”. There is only one stanza with ten lines in it. There appears to have no rhyme scheme but there is a lot of suspense. How I see this poem is a coach talking to himself about a player. The coach seems to be really into the game and noticing the details of the whole game. As he describes how the player moves through the game. I wish there would be a second stanza that would conclude what happened but then again, the sudden ending creates a feeling of curiosity. The second poem that Robert Francis wrote is “Pitcher”. It is centered about how a certain pitcher that is a bit odd. He does not want to make a strike if I am correct. He wants to deceive the batter and make the batter realize he was tricked. A pitcher’s role is to deceive the batter and that is what this poem is explaining. It talks about the process and how vital his role in the game of baseball. I honestly did not understand the poem that well until I read it a few times. That is to expect since I know nothing of