Showing posts with label Joy to the World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joy to the World. Show all posts

Monday, May 29, 2017

Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World"

A couple weeks ago, I happened to think of Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" (from the album Naturally), specifically the line "And he always had some mighty fine wine," and I realized that it uses some poetic devices.

Initially I noticed just the assonance among "mighty," "fine," and "wine."  They all have long I sounds.  When I typed this out just to make a note of it, I also realized that there's internal rhyme with "fine" and "wine."  Along with just making the lyrics sound euphonious, the elevated language gives an-other indication of the high quality of the wine it's describing.