It all depends what time period It is I guess. In the 50s a black man could've gotten killed. If he was white anything could've happened. Even killings.
Blight means ruin and disaster. Words and phrases that indicate and support this meaning are: "the last bitter hour" (denoting death), "stern agony, and shroud, and pall" (also denoting death, but this time in an even more literal way), "breathless darkness", "make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart" (these phrases definitely imply a disaster that takes our breath away).
The rhyme scheme of the poem The Eagle is A-A-A-B-B-B.
Hands-Lands-Stands=A
Crawls-Walls-Falls=B
It sounds like it would be Climax
