"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.

"Look Away"

At the beginning of "Look Away," the only instrumentation is organ, and the sparseness of the arrangement gives some sense of the solitude of the first line:  "All alone, standing here by myself."

"Alone" in that first line is sung with a melisma (Bb C Bb A G F G) musically giving a sense of the degree of that "all."  In the first line of the second verse - "She's so close, the girl that I knew so well" - "close" is sung with the same melisma for a musical sense of the degree of that "so."  The second "so" there ("so well") is also sung with a melisma (A G F) for a sense of degree.

At least one of the "away"s in the title phrase in the lead vocals (at ~1:47) is sung with a melisma (D D C), musically giving a sense of movement.  The "look away"s in the backing vocals are sung to phrases that move in opposite directions (one descends - C C A; one ascends - E E F), which gives a sense of movement or even of distance.