The Pied Piper of Hamelin evaluation.

Browning tells the story of the poem with rhyming to make it seem child friendly  as it is 'A child's story'. This makes it easy to read and fun. This poem is very different from all of Browning's other poems because they are all dramatic monologues, whereas this poem is about the moral of the story, to which you should keep your promises.
Browning uses very vivid imagery by using very strong, powerful words such as ' fought, bit, ate, licked' so that it is easy to imagine. These words are actions so you can picture someone doing this in your mind. This is effective because your understanding of the poem increases within understanding what the poem is saying through pictures.
The poem is structured in stanzas. This is as if they are each a chapter in a story, this adds to the storytelling affect that it is being read to you be someone else, and this engages the reader because you become emotionally connected.
Browning uses the council, as represented by animalism words and the repetition of vermin, which is not actually said to be a rat until later could show Browning's  views on the difference between the rich and poor and his views on authority. He just covers them up well so that a younger audience will be still interested in the story. It is surprising that this story is written for children, but not so as all his poems are about showing that what culture was like in the past and the difference of society today and the irony of what really happened but possibly not what was known happened, children are innocent compared to before so this could be still aimed at children, but from a different era.