Baby why you wanna cry?
You really oughta know that I
Just have to walk away sometimes
We're gonna do what lovers do
We're gonna have a fight or two
But I ain't ever changin' my mind
Crazy girl, don't you know that I love you?
And I wouldn't dream of goin' nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl
Wouldn't last a single day
I'd probably just fade away
Without you, I'd lose my mind
Before you ever came along
I was livin' life all wrong
Smartest thing I ever did was make you all mine
Crazy girl, don't you know that I love you?
And I wouldn't dream of goin' nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl
Crazy girl
Crazy girl, don't you know that I love you?
And I wouldn't dream of goin' nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately,
I love you like
Crazy, girl, don't you know that I love you?
And I wouldn't dream of goin' nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl
Like crazy
Crazy girl
Like crazy
Crazy girl
Like crazy
These are the lyrics to one of my favorite songs EVER, Crazy Girl by Eli Young Band, and I just realized that it actually has a lot of literary devices in it that we've been talking about in class over the last couple weeks. This form/type of poetry is Lyric, obviously. Some things I noticed throughout the song were repeating vowel sounds, assonance, in the first and second verse. Examples: "Baby why you wanna cry? You really oughta know that I..." "We're gonna do what lovers do We're gonna have a fight or two..." "Wouldn't last a single day I'd probably just fade away..." "Before you ever came along I was livin' life all wrong..." So those are a few examples of repeating vowel sounds.
Another thing I noticed in this song was that most of those examples I gave you were also couplets, which if you did not remember are:
A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. |
"Wouldn't last a single day
I'd probably just fade away
Without you, I'd lose my mind
Before you ever came along
I was livin' life all wrong
Smartest thing I ever did was make you all mine"
If you'll notice, the comma in between you and I'd is the caesura and all the other lines are examples of enjambment. I found the line breaks in this song very interesting because the line breaks at a point that it was as if a comma could be there or even in some cases a period. So that was something else I noticed! Later fellow bloggers, can't wait to read your songs. (:
xoxo
Emily
Emily, you are noticing some good things here, but you want to be as specific as possible about sound patterns. So if you are looking at rhyming words, you don't need to talk about assonance, because rhyming means they have the same vowel. Also, make sure you are drawing conclusions from your observations - what is the effect of the techniques you are pointing out?
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