• egrets@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This reading works incredibly well in the trailer, and the tone and ascending hysteria achieved is excellent, but I have to say that I think Holmes missed the natural meter of Kipling’s poem. As I read it, Kipling was very much imitating the rhythm of the footfall of marching feet, and that’s absent here.