Thursday, June 7, 2012

Music and Rhyme Patterns

Music often follows a rhyme pattern.  Take the last word in a line as your rhyming word and on an regular interval it rhymes with the last word in another line.
A song pattern can go a, a, b, a, b where the last word of line a rhymes with all of the a lines, and the last word of the b lines also rhyme.  Norah Jones song, Shoot the Moon fits this pattern. This is from http://www.poemhunter.com/song/shoot-the-moon/

a   The summer days are gone to soon
a   You shoot the moon
b   And miss completely
a   And now your left to face the gloom
c   The empty room which smelled so sweetly
c   Of all the flowers you plucked if only
d   You knew the reason
c   Why you had to be so lonely
d   Was it just the season?

e  The Fall is here again
e  You can't begin to give in
f   It's all over

g  When the snow comes rolling through
f  Your rolling too with some new lover
h  Will you think of times you told me
d  That you knew the reason
h  Why we had to each be so lonely
d  It was just the season

This song makes me think of changes in life, like the changes in season.  At different points in life people choose to go their separate ways.  I think 'shoot the moon' means try very hard, or go all out for someone.  Norah's song has a sad tone that I can relate to, but also seems to have a hopeful message as well. Here's a video link that has the song-   Norah Jones Shoot the Moon.

Are there rhyming words in songs you know?  Share a favorite song, or check out the website, Rhyme in Lyrics for more information about rhyme patterns.  http://www.musiclyricsfyi.com/rhyme-in-lyrics.html

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