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- Title
- The policeman who prigged the mutton
- Description
- The classic ballad was constructed of alternating four-beat and three-beat lines, arranged into four-line verses with each even-numbered line rhyming. Usually, the broadside would present a combination of news report and ballad, with a summary of the event printed first. Rather than printing a new musical score, balladeers would often compose to the tune of hymns or folk songs. Occasionally a broadside ballad will elaborate: "to be sung to the tune of...'" but it is often assumed that the public will know the melody.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- IUB00700
- See Also
- Full Text Available at HathiTrust
- Authors
- Paul, Charles
- Full Title
- The policeman who prigged the mutton.
- Date
- 1845
- From the Exhibit
- Crymes and Rhymes: The Broadside Ballad
- Publisher
- Seven Dials
- Location
- London
- Language
- English
- Rights
-
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- Text
- Medium
- Ephemera
- Bibliographic Citation
- Paul, Charles. The Policeman Who Prigged the Mutton. London: Paul, printer 18, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials 1845.