Analyze a Song

        The song I decided to analyze was "Paradise" by Coldplay. This song tells a story of a girl chasing her dreams as she grows older. In the 2nd stanza we can find an example of anaphora, as a phrase is repeated at the beginning of the sentences to describe her environment around her and the harshness and difficulty of pursuing her dreams. The character has a hard time achieving her goals, but she continues to believe that she will eventually be able to. 

In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly

        This song also uses cacophony to set the mood of the song. In the first and second stanza, Coldplay uses these harsh words to describe the struggles the main character faces while chasing her dreams. 

When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach and the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly every tear a waterfall

        The character is going through a hard time in her life. She is pursuing her dream, but it keeps going outside of her reach, and she feels broken and sad. However, even though he goes through tough times like these, she always believes that she will one day achieve her goal. One of the lines in the fifth stanza is "I know the sun must set to rise," which is an example of metaphor. Coldplay compare the character's dreams to the sun, in which even if her dreams seem like they are gone, they will always come back, just like how the sun sets and rises.