Using this same method of careful measure-counting, how long is the second stanza? How is the basic beat divided differently from the division of the basic beat into three quicker units (compound meter) found in the recordings on “Poor Boy Blues”, “She Got Me Walkin’” and “I Need $100”? How does the drum provide a systematic syncopation? What provides the unity in the music?

What will be an ideal response?

• 16 measures including the six-beat first measure
• The beat is divided into two quicker even units (a duple or binary division of the beat rather than a ternary or compound division of the beat as found in the other cited examples).
• The drum plays on the "up-part" between every beat (rather than on the normally accented "down-part" of each beat).
• The riff or ostinato (repeating) pattern in the guitar, the repeating melody of the verses, and perhaps, to some degree, the repetitive drum accompaniment provide unity.