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Analyzing Lemon Tree

   

Analyzing Lemon Tree

The lemon tree produced in 1995 by Fools Garden is a very special poem, the words in it pass a feeling that’s very complicated. This poem was very popular at that time, and until now, people still remember it. The first time I heard it was a long long time ago, but I just couldn't remember the name of the song,  but just a few weeks ago, I heard the song in radio, I was so intrigued, I asked for its name and downloaded it straight away, and now, it has become my favourite song. The lemon tree gave people a sense of loneliness in sadness with their wise choice of words.

The repetition in the poem enlarges the sadness. This line repeated twice in the poem, and we can feel the depression in the words. This poem contains multiple repetitions, there are the main verse and 2 vice-verses, and the main verse was repeated 3 times, the 2 vice-verses. "But nothing ever happens and I wonder". There aren’t many changes between the verses, but if the reader read them carefully, they will realize that the whole poem becomes a depressing love story. 

There are some rhyming in the lyrics, especially in the main verse, the word 'why' and 'sky', 'down' and 'around', it makes the poem very fluent and feels very chill when listening to it. Most of the lines in Lemon Tree gave a sense of sadness for example “I'm sittin' here in the boring room It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon.” This line includes a place, a time, wether and what the character in the poem is doing. Place, which is a boring room, represents he is alone and has nothing to do. Time, which is Sunday, and that's weekend, so that's supposed to bring some joy. But, the weather, it's raining, and again it brings the reader to a low point. At last what the character’s doing…, sitting there and doing nothing. This is the very start of the poem, and already, the atmosphere is decided, it's going to be sad.

In conclusion, this poem used rhyming as a sugarcoat to attract people’s ear, repetition to enlarge the story or the emotion the writer is creating, and at last the lyrics or the wording, which is the most essential part,  successfully increased the atmosphere of the poem and set the mood in to what the writer wants.