What is syncopation and which words are syncopated in the third stanza (starting at 1:27) of “Poor Boy Blues”?

What will be an ideal response?


• Syncopation (or "misplaced accents") refers to accenting beats that are normally unaccented or accenting notes that occur in between the beats. (If you read music, notice in TR. 4-11, Worlds of Music, p. 206 that the syncopated words always fall between the regular beats of a 4/4 meter.
• In stanza 3 of "Poor Boy Blues" Lucas syncopates
. . . age . . . a-round . . . been a poor boy. . . ain't caught. . . hell.

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