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"...'Death and the Goose Boy' was ommited because of its baroque literary features;"
“’The Stepmother’ [was omitted] because of its fragmentary nature and cruelty;”
“…’The Faithful Animals’ [was omitted] because it came from the Siddhi-Kür….”
well it says here in the exerpt that they bursted out in to laughter showing they thought that was a joke.
Meter - Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed shorter. In simple language, meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound
