In the song "Dark Turn of Mind," the artist, Gillian Welch, repeats the same phrase at the end of each stanza except the third one. The phrase emphasized the phrase 'dark turn of mind' and also used the phrase in a different way each time. The song also uses words that intone different versions of the word dark. This is done through the shadows and bones mentioned in the second stanza; the coming of night in the third stanza; and a dark mind being favorable over brightness in the last two stanzas.
All of this darkness, combined with the alternating euphony and cacophony, gives off interpretations of a clash between innocence and darkness. There is only a bit of a slant rhyme in the first stanza. The last stanza is a repetition of the final two lines in the previous stanza with some extra emphasis in the part about a dark turn of mind.
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone
Tony Abbott
437 pages
6 hours
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