Saturday, July 22, 2023

"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).