"In the Beginning"

I'm pretty sure I noticed before that in "In the Beginning," the phrase "our great computer" is spoken more loudly than the preceding and following words, but I realized yester-day that this change in dynamics highlights that exalted status.

"Question"

Since I finished transcribing the lyrics in the CD booklet from On the Threshold of a Dream, I've moved on to A Question of Balance (I'd already done To Our Children's Children's Children).  Last night, I transcribed "Question" and noticed polysyndeton (the repeated "and") in the lines "With a thousand million questions / About hate and death and war."  It's only a slight use of this rhetorical device, but to some degree, it provides a sense of amount (the "thousand million" from the previous line).

"Have You Heard - Part 2"

Yester-day, I finally finished transcribing the lyrics from the CD booklet from On the Threshold of a Dream.  While copying the lyrics for "Have You Heard - Part 2," I realized something about the line "Scatter good seed in the fields."  Each syllable in the line is sung to a different pitch, and as a whole, the pitches span more than an octave (A B C D E G B).  Musically, then, there's a sense of the breadth and extending of that "scatter[ing]."

"In the Beginning"

This morning, I started transcribing the lyrics from the booklet of On the Threshold of a Dream into Google Documents so that they're easier to reference.  So far, all I've done is "In the Beginning," but in transcribing it, I noticed something:  the insistently repeated rhymes in "I've miles / And miles / Of files / Pretty files..." and "Face piles / And piles / Of trials / With smiles" help provide a sense of abundance in both of these instances.