#theveryfirstnight

'Cause they don't know about the night in the hotel They weren't riding in the car when we both fell Didn't read the note on the Polaroid picture They don't know how much I miss you

But don't forget about the night out in LA Danced in the kitchen, chased me down through the hallway No one knows about the words that we whispered No one knows how much I miss you

I remember the night at the hotel I was riding in the car when we both fell I'm the one on the phone as you whisper "Do you know how much I miss you?"

Taylor Swift clearly uses an AABB rhyme scheme and introduces a subverted rhyme. Here is what those terms mean:

“A subverted rhyme, teasing rhyme or mind rhyme is the suggestion of a rhyme which is left unsaid and must be inferred by the listener. A rhyme may be subverted either by stopping short, or by replacing the expected word with another (which may have the same rhyme or not).“

“The AABB rhyme scheme uses sections of four lines divided into two couplets. A couplet consists of two lines that rhyme with each other. The series of couplets continue for the rest of the poem. With the AABB rhyme scheme, each couplet rhymes. So, you have two lines that rhyme (A) followed by two lines that share a different rhyme (B).”

How does that relate to the song you might ask?

'Cause they don't know about the night in the hotel They weren't riding in the car when we both fell Didn't read the note on the Polaroid picture They don't know how much I miss her you

But don't forget about the night out in LA Danced in the kitchen, chased me down through the hallway No one knows about the words that we whispered No one knows how much I miss her you

I remember the night at the hotel I was riding in the car when we both fell I'm the one on the phone as you whisper "Do you know how much I miss her you?"

The listener is expecting to hear the word “her” due to the rhyme pattern

Hotel/ Fell Picture/ Her

LA/ Hallway Whispered/ Her

Hotel/ Fell Whisper/ Her