<span>The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.The poem's first four lines also set the scene for us. They give us the game situation in a pretty clear, entertaining way. For the home team, the "Mudville nine," things are not looking too good: "The outlook wasn't brilliant."</span>
“Puddle-wonderful” is a made up word, a syntax. Syntax means “the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.” So the author is describing the mud as wonderful.
To show how people dint fit in to where they are supposed to
Have you ever seen an animal walking sideways, across the sand?
Richard gave me one of his extra-rotten weasel-eyed green-toothed grins.
Hope this helps!
