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.