I'm bad at tell which syllables are unstressed and stressed. Can anyone help me with Dudley Randall's "Ballad

of Birmingham"?


"Mother dear, may I go downtown


Instead of out to play,


And march the streeets of Birmingham


In a freedom March today?"


"No, baby, no, you may not go,


For the dogs are fierce and wild,


And clubs and hoses, guns and jail


Aren't good for a little child."


"But, mother, I won't be alone.


Other children will go with me,


And march the streets of Birmingham


To make our country free."


"No, baby, no, you may not go,


For i frea those guns will fire.


But you may go to church instead


And sing in the children's choir."


She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,


And bathed rose petal sweet,


And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,


And white shoes on her feet.


The mother smiled to know her child


Was in the sacred place,


But that smile was the last smile


To come upon her face.


For when she heard the explosion,


Her eyes grew wet and wild.


She raced through the streets of Birmingham


Calling for her child.


She clawed through bits of glass and bric

I'm bad at tell which syllables are unstressed and stressed. Can anyone help me with Dudley Randall's "Ballad
isn't it longer?
Reply:If you have problems with finding the stressed syllables, try saying the word with the stress somewhere else, and see if it sounds right. So for example, try saying BIRmingham, then birMINGham, then birmingHAM and see which shounds right.



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