Sign Inventory 1, Week 6

Sign Inventory for "Song 378" by Dan Albergotti

-poem begins and ends with two three-line stanzas, which are broken up by two single line stanzas
-the word "song" appears at least once in every three-line stanza (twice in the second stanza)
-the concept of saying recurs throughout the piece ("They say" 2x; "says song" 2x; "It says" 1x; "song says" 1x)
-the "say" phrases diminish towards the end of the poem, occurring twice in the first two stanzas, once in the first single-line stanza, but only once in the third 3-line stanza and not at all in the last or third to last stanza
-moves from they saying to it saying to the song saying to a composer who "said" "No music"
-there is an underlying birth/death theme ("grace", "skull to smile", "dead and dying", etc.)
-only 5 out of 14 lines do not end in a period
--two of these are the single-line stanzas
-poem made up mostly of short sentences (the third line is even divided into two full sentences)
-the only italisized words are "No music", which are supposedly spoken