Last summer, I got the two-albums-on-one-CD reissue of
15 Big Ones and
Love You. I've become fairly familiar with the albums and am going to start writing weekly posts about some of the things I noticed.
In the line "Good or bad, glad or sad, it's all gonna pass" in "It's OK," "good or bad" and "glad or sad" are merisms. In each, two opposites are named in order to give a sense of a range.
