Sunday, March 5, 2017

Song analysis

I decided to do an analysis on the song Umbrella by Rihanna. Like most songs, Umbrella included rhymes as a poetic device, there are many rhymes throughout the song. There is a rhyme in every stanza. There is not a lot of internal rhyme throughout the song, most of the rhyme are end rhymes. End rhymes are where the words at the end of the line rhymes.

Another poetic device that Rihanna uses in Umbrella is repetition. In the chorus, Rihanna repeats the second syllable in "umbrella" multiple times. Singing, "under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh", she creates repetition. She also shows repetition towards the end of the song. She repeats every line twice, "It's pouring rain
It's pouring rain
Come into me
Come into me
It's pouring rain
It's pouring rain"
I feel that these two poetic devices are the most prominent in this song. 

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