• Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    I’m sure someone with more sophisticated understanding of prose than I appreciates this, but the fact that the last line rhymes with nothing else is bugging the absolute shit outta me.

    (I know the first line doesn’t either but it doesn’t stand out as much)

    • pangolinpalantir@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You’ve listened to the Pete Seeger song though right? Solidarity Forever is based on The Battle Hymn of the Republic. They both use an AAAB rhyming scheme and I think are in iambic octameter but I’m not a professional. Pete Seeger didn’t write it, but I love his rendition. He’s got alot of great labor songs.