I think line 7 is addressed to the 'you' implied by 'your' - so not plural but second person. Still an interesting shift to the third person of the refrain
That's probably right. And yes, I think the refrain really is just a refrain, the same in both stanzas, and not necessarily meant to finish a sentence --- but it is kind of dislocating in the first stanza. I read this over and over, trying to line things up in my mind, until I probably wasn't seeing anything clearly at all!
My friend Marianne Wright reminds me that this is the song that Kate Winslet's Marianne Dashwood is singing in the Emma Thompson film version of Sense and Sensibility: https://youtu.be/MhI3lWxArCU?si=hfunYIAh0HWI9w79
It's been a long time since I saw that movie, I guess --- I wouldn't have remembered this at all. Thanks, Marianne, for bringing the connection to my attention!
I think line 7 is addressed to the 'you' implied by 'your' - so not plural but second person. Still an interesting shift to the third person of the refrain
That's probably right. And yes, I think the refrain really is just a refrain, the same in both stanzas, and not necessarily meant to finish a sentence --- but it is kind of dislocating in the first stanza. I read this over and over, trying to line things up in my mind, until I probably wasn't seeing anything clearly at all!
My friend Marianne Wright reminds me that this is the song that Kate Winslet's Marianne Dashwood is singing in the Emma Thompson film version of Sense and Sensibility: https://youtu.be/MhI3lWxArCU?si=hfunYIAh0HWI9w79
It's been a long time since I saw that movie, I guess --- I wouldn't have remembered this at all. Thanks, Marianne, for bringing the connection to my attention!