Friday, September 23, 2022

"Add Some Music to Your Day"

The rhyme scheme for the verses in "Add Some Music to Your Day" seems to be ABCCD, with the first two lines (AB) often forming something of a slant rhyme ("home" with "phone" and "heart" with "cars") and the last line (D) being some variation of the title phrase, linking the verses together.  In contrast to this, the section
Music
When you're alone
Is like a companion
For your lonely soul
is completely devoid of rhymes, and this lack of complements mirrors the singularity of being "alone."

In the line "There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone," "stone" is sung with a melisma (B A B A G#), musically giving something of a sense of the movement of "rollin'."