"Another Kind of Music"

I listened to As Is this morning and noticed a couple small features in "Another Kind of Music."

In addition to the line-ending rhyme in the song, there's internal rhyme in the line "His records sell extremely well, but does he really want it," and this poetic excess gives some indication of the character's success.  (The internal rhyme is part of the structure, however, and not unique to this particular line; it's also in the line "It's not the way he wants to play; he does it for a living" in the first verse.)

There's alliteration in the line "But no one knows just how he feels as he cuts his comical capers," and the artifice of this device mirrors the character in the song, who is putting on a façade and doing something other than what he actually wants.

"Look Away"

I listened to the first disc of a two-CD set of the Spencer Davis Group this morning because Spencer Davis recently died.  I noticed a couple features in the Spencer Davis Group's version of "Look Away" that are also present in Manfred Mann's version.

"All alone" at the very beginning alliterates, and because there's only one initial sound, there's an illustration of that singularity.

In the line "With the eyes and the lips and the skin that I know so well," "and" and "the" are unnecessarily repeated, and this helps to give a sense of degree (for "so well").  Polysyndeton is the rhetorical term for the repetition of conjunctions; I don't know if there's a term for the repetition of articles.

Hohner Pianet

A couple months ago on my blog devoted to the Hohner Pianet, I wrote a post about Manfred Mann's Pianets and what songs they were used on.  I felt I should link to it here.