Saturday, November 22, 2025

"In the Beginning"

I was thinking about "In the Beginning" this morning, and realized that the alliteration in the line "Keep as cool as you can" holds some significance.  The multiple instances of this phoneme provide a slight sense of degree (similar to how the persistent rhymes in other lines portray an abundance, which I've written about before).  That the phoneme is sustained from word to word also lends a sense of the constancy of "keep."