What is the title of the song? What do you think the song will be about given its title?

1. Title – What is the title of the song? What do you think the song will be about given its title?

2. Music – Describe the music of the song. Identify and explain the mood the music creates.

3. Summary – Summarize the words of the song in your own words.

4. Imagery – What imagery do you see in the song? Describe the examples and explain what they make you think about and what they make you feel.

5.Literary devices – What literary devices (alliteration, allusion, assonance, figurative language, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, symbolism) do you see in the song? Identify each example and explain how it matches the definition of the device.

6. Tone – What is the tone of the song? What specific words have strong connotations? Explain how these connotations create the tone.

7. Rhyme Scheme – What is the rhyme scheme?

8. Repetition – What words, phrases, or images are repeated throughout the song? What effect do these words, phrases, or images have?

9. Theme – What is the theme of the song? What is the artist’s message to the listener? How do your answers to questions 1-9 support this theme?