"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.

"Oh! Good old-fashioned war!" (line 17)

"She smiled and went right down, she looked everywhere around

He whispered kind of slow, in a voice she did not know,

But she could not see her soldier son in sight.

In line 42, punctuation is also used to bring out a certain emotion, and it is also used by the writer as a tool of making an impact on the reader. Like line 17 which was previously discussed, line 42 was a repetition of the line before it, which read: "And I saw that his face was just like mine." (line 43). Thus, the repetition of that line tells the readers, that the fact that John Brown identified with the face is very important for the theme of the story.

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