Thread: A Folk Ballad
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Unread 03-13-2025, 12:40 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
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Mark, it is great as is, but I had a thought when I got to the last line. I heard that line as "while the sheep roam free." And I thought that if the last line of each stanza were shortened to two beats, you could capture some of that eerie feel of Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." It's your call.

Susan
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