Deep analysis

Casey At The Bat by Ernest L. Thayer

This is a great ballad. Not only is it well written with a wonderful rhyme scheme, but it is also the only story that I know that doesn't have a happy ending for almost every person in the story yet it is still a realy great poem.

My fovorite part of the story is the end. I don't think Ernest L. Thayer could have closed the story with a better ending.

"Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright.
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout,

but there is no joy in Mudville --
mighty Casey has struck out."

The entire poem is rhyming, here is one example or rhym:

Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
it rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;

it pounded through on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat;
for Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

Metaphors:

So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat;
for there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.

But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all.
And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball.

And when the dust had lifted,
and men saw what had occurred,
there was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.