An artistic exploration of how repeated words move from poetic language into melody, rhythm, and musical expression.
A poet writes a sentence twice. A songwriter sings that same sentence twice. The words may be identical, but their second appearance does not necessarily perform the same artistic function.
On the page, a repeated line can interrupt thought, establish symmetry, recall an earlier image, or expose a change in the speaker's understanding. In a song, the same line encounters additional forces: melody, harmony, rhythm, vocal delivery, arrangement, and the listener's memory of its previous musical appearance.
