The mood changes to mayhem with Browning personifying the rats (anthropomorphism). The setting at the beginning in stanza 1 seems appealing using pretty descriptive adjectives.It uses moments of satire (mocks established conventions and institutions and public figures.The poem’s structure is in chronological order.Repetition is used to make describing rats as comical in the second verse and line 111.There are elements of the supernatural and magic: it has an unrealistic story.It is connected to the rhythming doggerel.The rhythm is even, constant and simple. The Pied Piper can be considered a children’s story for the following reasons: From this story, the moral of the story is to keep to your promise, just like the town of Hamelin never did. He lures, just like he did with the rats, the children of the town to the top of a mountain where they miraculously disappear. They forget to pay the Pied Piper for his work leaving the Pied Piper in a revengeful mood. The town of Hamelin are delightful and spend their money drinking to this victory. The Mayor agrees and with the help of his flute and magic, the Pied Piper leads the rats down to the river where they all drown. The Pied Piper comes to Hamelin and tells the Mayor that he will get rid of the rats for ‘a thousand guilders’. One of Browning’s longest poem, it tells of a story of the town of Hamelin that was over run with rats (if you don’t want the plot to the poem, skip this paragraph).
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