Poetry essay

             Bob Dylan's song, "John Brown", contains the elements needed in poetry and therefore can be read as one. The song includes the rhythm, punctuation, and structure that allow it to be a poem. Dylan wrote his song based on a strong theme, and he emphasized his important thoughts by using these elements or poetry writing.
             "John Brown" has a strong rhythm in it, a critical component. Every stanza of the song has four sentences, and between every number of stanzas there is one line that emphasizes a certain idea. All the last words of every two lines rhyme. The first stanza of the song is an example of rhythm:
             "John Brown went off to war to fight on a foreign shore.
             He stood straight and tall in his uniform and all.
             His mama's face broke out all in a grin." (lines 1-4).
             In this stanza, the words "him" and "grin" rhyme. Through the song, there are also cases where two words in the same line rhyme. Stanza one, for instance, two words in line one rhyme – "war" and "shore". The same structure is also seen in line three, with the words "tall" and "all". When reading the song, the reader can most definitely capture the rhythm of the song and can read it with musical input.
             Another element of poetry that the song consists of is punctuation. When reading a poem, the speed and feeling is determined by the punctuation. In "John Brown", the many punctuation signs guide us through the entire song by telling the reader where to go faster, where to speak louder, and where to shout out a statement of excitement. Punctuation also often tells us the tone of the poem or line. An example of the punctuation used in Dylan's song is the following line:
             "Oh! Good old-fashioned war!" (line 17)
             The line above was written in an attempt to put emphasis on the sentence just before it, which read: "And these things they called a good old-fashioned war!" (line 16). The con
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