Structuralism - Play Song ( Peter Kumalo )

Let’s go to the hillside today

   To play, to play, to play.

Up to the hill where the daisies grow

   Like snow, like snow, like snow.

There shall we make a daisy chain

One tomorrow and tomorrow again.

There where the daisies grow like snow

There’s where we will go.

Let’s go to the hillside today

   To play, to play, to play.

Down to the bay where the children swim

   Like fish, like fish, like fish

Down to the bay where the children swim,

Down to the bay where the white yacht skim,

Or up to the hill where the daisies grow,

There’s where we will go.

Analysis:

This poem  involves the use of rhyming words. Each stanza is made up of eight lines. In each of the stanzas, the lines are paired; line 1 and line 2, line 3 and line 4, line 5 and line 6, line 7 and line 8. the lines 1, 3, 5 and 7 are made up of 8 syllables while the lines 2,4, 6 and 8 are made up of 6 syllables. This poem is also an example of a poem with much euphony. It is the use of pleasant, harmonious-sounding combination of words. Poems are meant to be read for full enjoyment . Therefore, sounds should be pleasing to the ear, the sound should be musical.