... describes the role each of them played in the town. The second and fourth stanzas are devoted to telling how each of them met their demise. Masters uses a sort of parallel structure in the way he compares them, never restating the names, just keeping the details in the same order as the names are. The fifth stanza then introduces five more characters ... characters, as they would have for those in traditional poems of that formula. The Greek Anthology, similar not only in title but also in form, is another source for Masters" structure. Masters used a similar "brevity and concentration ...

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• Grade Level: High School