In poetry, when stress is placed on certain words or sounds, it is called Meter.
The theme of this fable is that no one can overcome honesty. In light of that we see that greed and malice are to be downfalls of the individual. We can therefore deduce that leaders must be honest and honorable and not fall to vices like greed and be fair and not malicious.
The error in this sentence is a A) pronoun-antecedent voice agreement error. But it should be noted that this has become more standard usage in common dialogue.