Help poetry!!?

Question

Oh! somewhere in this favored land men put up a fight,

People are crying somewhere, and somewhere there is fright.

And somewhere kids are creeped out, and somewhere men are ??????? ;
Though Mudville celebrates-mighty Casey has "Struck Out."


Ok I need help with this.I need to change this. I already did the first part, all I need is the part with the question marks and the last stanza.
I am supposed to have Casey hit a home run at the end but have the same rhythm as the original poem and it has to rhym and have the same amount of syllables.

Here is the original poem stanza:

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 somewhere children shout;

But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has "Struck Out."

Answer 1

Why, may I ask, are you rewriting Dr. Seuss?

Also, you haven't held to the same rhythm, even just in the first line. Scan it and looks as follows:

(You)
_ / _ / _ / _ / / _ / _ /

(Seuss)
_ / _ / _ / _ / _ / _ / _ /

/ = heavy stress; _ = light stress

You see that Seuss sticks to the regular iambic meter (in that first line anyway, I didn't scan the rest of the stanza)That "Oh!" is tricky. The exclamation mark may give it enough pause to make it a heavy stress. Either way, rhythm isn't determined by the number of syllables.

Answer 2

Well, Stephanie, you know that it was Ernest Thayer, not Dr. Seuss, who wrote "Casey at the Bat," so you'll know whose advice to ignore.

Think for a minute about the conclusion of Thayer's poem. He says that there are positive, happy things happening in other places, but not in Mudville. So you want to say that there are gloomy, horrible things happening elsewhere, but here in Mudville there is cause for great joy. You're on the right track with "crying," "fright," and "creeped out." But "men put up a fight" doesn't quite do the trick. You don't want people putting up a fight in that line; you want them them crushed and defeated. Nothing is going right. There is no joy in sight. The mood is as dark as night. Something like that. Then, to find a rhyme where you've got all those question marks, you want to look to your final line and think of all the possible ways of saying that Casey has homered. "Casey has homered" is one possibility, but I'm not sure what you'd rhyme with that. "Casey has gone deep" is a possibility. Also "Casey has gone yard." (Trust me, that's something that baseball announcers really say when somebody hits a home run.) Other options: "Casey has hit a home run" "Casey has hit a round-tripper" "Casey has hit one over the wall" "Casey has knocked one out" "Casey's bat has won the game." There are probably other possibilities that aren't occurring to me at the moment.