Wednesday, October 21, 2020

"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.