"Ride My See-Saw"

I listened to In Search of the Lost Chord yester-day.  This morning, I was thinking about "Ride My See-Saw" and realized something about the melody to which the title phrase is sung.  The notes there are C D C E, so musically there's an alternating, up-and-down feel that matches the movement of a see-saw.

"Another Morning"

The other thing I noticed when I listened to Days of Future Passed yester-day is in "Another Morning."  "So" in the line "Watch children playing, they seem so wise" is sung with a melisma (G B), musically giving a sense of degree.

"Dawn Is a Feeling"

I listened to Days of Future Passed this morning and noticed a couple small things.

In "Dawn Is a Feeling," the phrase "far and near" in the line "In minds far and near, things are becoming clear with a meaning" is an example of a merism, a rhetorical device in which two distant points of a range are mentioned in order to refer to the entirety.  While the specific words here are "minds far and near," the sense is really "minds all over the place."