Poem v. Song: Brenda Lee song: It's A Marshmallow World and William Wordsworth's poem I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud

"It's A Marshmallow World" is on the surface just a bit of fluff(a happy song with little meaning. However, it does manifest many of the same elements and concepts as the poem. One of these is personification. The song refers to the marshmallow clouds as being "friendly" and talks about "the arms of the ever-green-trees" ("It's A Marshmallow World"). It states that the sun "is shining so your nose won't freeze," implying benevolence on the part of the sun ("It's A Marshmallow World"). In this song, the entire "marshmallow world" seems to be alive and friendly, peopled with personified elements of nature whose purpose is to be welcoming and comforting to young lovers. The song's tone is happy and light, conveying delight in the beauty of the marshmallow world, which is depicted as an edible confection. The marshmallow world, pumpkin-like sun, sugar date, and "yummy yummy world" all connote food that is sweet and delicious. The theme of the song is that "the world is the snowball," and its message is that the snowball is "just for our soul/ So get up and roll it along," intimating that everything in the world exists to promote happiness

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hat it lacks then extra syllable at the end: xxXxxXxxX. The next two lines have an identical rhythm in the pattern: xxXxx. The fifth line, however, stands out as quite different: xXxxxxxx. The emphasis here is on the word "wait," which accentuates the fact that the marshmallow world exists only in the winter, and the songwriter must "wait for it the whole year around" ("It's A Marshmallow World"). This sets the marshmallow world apart as special and rare, something only available intermittently. The rhyme scheme is abccb, with the shorter two "c" lines being a couplet. In the poem, the rhyme scheme is ababcc, a ballad stanza plus a couplet. Here, the rhythm is a rigid xX, an iamb, all the way through the stanza until the last line, where it breaks with the pattern on the word "fluttering." Thus, the rhyme scheme for the stanza is: xXxXxXxX xXxXxXxX xXxXxXxX xXxXxXxX XxxxXxXxX The emphasis on "fluttering" breaks the somber mood and suggests happy movement, particularly since the next adjective in the line is "dancing" (Wordsworth). The second stanza's rhythm, starting with "Continuous as the stars that shine" and ending with "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is
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