The fill-in poem was a type of literary expression made popular in the late eighteenth century. The lines in the poem do not rhyme, but if you substitute the appropriate word for each bold word or phrase, the poem will rhyme. If you put the new answers under each other, you will have created an acrostic whose first and last letters reading downward generate the name of a famous soccer player. Can you describe what is happening in this poem before finding out who this famous soccer player is?

Yes, Virginia

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