Monday, September 19, 2022

"Mighty Quinn"

Yester-day, I listened to The Best of the Fontana Years (which I got a few months ago), and I noticed a small feature in "Mighty Quinn."  The "without" and "within" in the line "Come on without; come on within" form a merism.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

"Harry the One-Man-Band"

I listened to Mighty Garvey! yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Harry the One-Man-Band," specifically in the structure of the line "Anywhere the people are, Harry's sure to go."  The structure seems partly dictated by the rhyme scheme:  "go" comes at the end of the line in order to rhyme with "snow" in the previous line.  This specific structure, however, with "Anywhere the people are" placed at the beginning of the line rather than at the end ("Harry's sure to go anywhere the people are"), results in a closer proximity between "the people" and "Harry," and this mirrors the meaning.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

"Tennessee Waltz"

Yester-day, I figured out the chords for "Tennessee Waltz."  I think I'd noticed before that while it's called the "Tennessee Waltz," it's not actually a waltz; it's in 4/4.  Yester-day, I realized that this may have significance.  It seems that because the narrator's friend stole his darling while the Tennessee Waltz was playing, the narrator is now trying to avoid waltzes, so although he's relating this story, he's doing it in a different meter.