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The rhyme breaks on the loss

The pattern that's held all song fails exactly where the meaning does.

When a song teaches your ear to expect a rhyme and then withholds it on the saddest line, the broken pattern IS the grief. Form enacts feeling — you hear the loss as a missing sound.

Hurt

Johnny Cash

the final wish refuses the chorus it taught you

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

plainspoken lines that won't resolve

Re: Stacks

Bon Iver

the rhyme dissolves as the resolve does

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