ok so I was thinking a lot about the rhyming in Hey #1 and how it's like aaabaaab and so I sat down and kind of like wrote out how the rhyme schema goes and as it turns out you can't really do abab like you normally would because they bring back rhymes and. let me just show you
Hey #1 (o stands for outlier the rest of the lettering belongs to rhymes)
H: a(hey) N: a(hey) H: a(days) o(call) b(weeks) N: a(crazed) H: a(hey) a(hey) b(scene) c(mess) N: c(guess) H: b(clean) N: d(you) H: d(do) N: e(start) H: e(far) N: e(far) H: a(hey) N: o(don’t) H: a(hey) N: b(me) H: f(over) f(over) N: b(be) H: d(knew) d(you) H: a(hey) a(say) g(dance) g(dance) b(cheese) b(free) N: g(dances) H: b(me) N: b(henry)
OK OKOK so I know this looks kind of um. like the ramblings of a madwoman. what I'm going to say is also going to sound like it but I just need you to stick with me because this is so so so interesting to me
Ok so it starts like how I originally pointed out with that aaab aaab rhyme but it comes about in a very interesting way, and goes off the rails from there.
they echo each other [hey, hey], and then henry sets natalie up for a rhyme [it's been weeks]. natalie ignores the rhyme, and goes back to the echo [I've been crazed] henry acknowledges the echo [hey, hey!], sets her up for the rhyme again [have you been on the scene?], this time putting it in the place where she took up the previous rhyme, and adds on another set up to the end [cause you look like a mess] where assumedly, he would finish it like he did previously HOWEVER natalie ONCE AGAIN ignores the b rhyme and finishes the one on the end instead [thanks, I guess]. Henry then sets her up for ONLY that rhyme [are you clean?] without any others, so that she has to finish it. HOWEVERRR in setting her up so many times, he's made the rhyme 'complete' in a way and she starts a new rhyme entirely instead!! [wow, coming from you??] he finishes that rhyme [I don't do what you do!] they go back and forth yada yada I'm not really interested in that EXCEPT for at the end where natalie BRINGS BACK THE B RHYME [don't do this to me!] to which henry is sad and has his own 'rhyme' (if you can count two words repeated being a rhyme) with HIM being the one to ignore it this time, again forcing natalie to finish it [don't you want us to be?] To whichhhh HENRY brings back the d rhyme that natalie originally used!! to ignore him!!! [no, I want who I knew; she's somewhere in you]
and then henry takes a breath, brings back the a rhyme at the start of the song; as if he's saying "let's just start over, make peace, alright?" [hey, say] he has his own 'rhyme' where he asks her to the dance, and once again he brings back the b rhyme [and it's cheese; but it's fun and it's free] once again, natalie echoes back the rhyme before [I don't do dances] henry responds as if he's going to finish that 'rhyme' but then PSYCH B RHYME IS BACK [do this dance with me] and natalie, being the one to end the song, is left with only the b rhyme to finish, which she does. [goodbye, henry]
now, kaslyn, you may ask, you have been ranting and raving and color coding these rhymes for several paragraphs now. when are you going to get to the point? to which my response is I am waving my arms at you frantically pointing at this. do you understand do you get it????
that first rhyme he sets her up for: it's been weeks. she gives him a half answer, doesn't finish the rhyme. he tries again: have you been on the scene? it's a more direct confrontation. she's fully avoiding the question now, snatching up the new rhyme he unintentionally offered. he gives up dancing around it, asks her straight out: are you clean?
she snaps. she doesn't answer the question, throws it back on him, starts her own rhyme. he answers it, they go back and forth and I didn't mention this in the color coded one but he tries to bring the beginning back around with the hey, hey! (as if he's saying "can't we just start over?") TO WHICH SHE RESPONDS WITH THE B RHYME AND I KNOW I ALREADY FREAKIN SAID THIS BUT SGKADHDSH and then AFTER THAT?? he says "are we over? don't say that we're over!" BECAUSE HE'S TAKING THE CAN WE START OVER AND BEGGING THAT THEY NOT BE OVER. he ignores her rhyme the way she ignored his!! he forces her to finish it, to face it and answer the question! and her answer is another questions, giving him a chance to leave them behind, something she's convinced herself has already happened.
AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MAN RESPONDS WITH. OF COURSE YOU DO YOU'RE NEAR THE END OF THE POST WE'VE ALREADY COVERED THIS. he brings back HER rhyme, the one SHE interrupted HIM with to tell her both that he doesn't want them to be over but that he was listening to her.
and then once again he brings back that a rhyme to ask them to start over (foreshadowing when he actually does ask in Hey #2), uses her rhyme!! to invite her to the dance. she refuses his rhyme. he begs her. and she says goodbye, but she ends on that rhyme. yes it's his name I know whatever BUT SHE COULD HAVE JUST SAID GOODBYE. SHE DIDN'T. SHE SAID HIS NAME SHE FINISHED THE RHYME SHE DIDN'T LEAVE HIM HANGING THIS TIME SHE'S STILL INVOLVED IN THIS RELATIONSHIP.
barely any of this probably makes sense to anyone but they're so important to me and I just needed someone else to try and Understand
