I've been listening to a lot of French music lately. Yester-day, I listened to a disc of an Edith Piaf compilation album.
I've been trying to get better at my French (listening to French music seems to help), and while I still can't understand everything, I'm getting better at picking out phrases here and there. In "Heureuse," I found an interesting one: "Heureuse demain / De tout et de rien" ("Happy tomorrow / With everything and with nothing").
There's the line-ending rhyme between "demain" and "rien," but there's an-other poetic feature here: alliteration among "demain," "de tout," and "de rien." Each word/phrase is two syllables starting with "de," but "de tout" and "de rien" are prepositional phrases where "demain" is an adverb.
Alliteration is a pretty common feature in song lyrics, but I found this more interesting just because it's in French.
