Analyze a Song

I am going to analyze I Must Belong Somewhere" by Bright Eyes because I could not think of a song to analyze, so I chose a song that Dr.D gave us. 

 Lyrics


The major techniques that are being used are anaphora, personification, and cacophony. To start, Anaphora is used all throughout the song. "Leave..." is repeated consecutively to emphasize leaving and forgetting about that part of your life. Anaphora also creates a rhythm in that the reader will know the beginning of the next lyric and that it is pleasing to read/sing/listen to.  


In verse, "Leave the sad guitar in its hard-shell case," personification is used in this example to represent how nobody plays that guitar, so it is sad or to show how dreary that place is so you need to leave. Another example is "In truth, the forest hears each sound". This example of personification, the forest is being compared to a person saying that the forest can hear noises. Cacophony is used several times to express the harshness of the place before, like in the verse "Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage"


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