anyone lived in a pretty how town (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is basically a narrative with a strong lyric component—that is to say, it is a ballad. Written in nine variably rhyming quatrain stanzas, it does not show a normative or “running” verse foot, such as the iamb; therefore, the poem is written in podic prosody, a system of accentual verse that is sometimes called “folk meters.” It is the prosody in which most nursery rhymes and folk ballads are written, which accounts for its strongly rhythmical quality. Specifically, the lines have four stresses, or are...
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