Audio Example 9.4: A melodic end-rhyme in "Hard Rain"
Chapter 9
Audio Example 9.4
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A melodic end-rhyme in "Hard Rain"
New York, NY (Columbia Studio A) — December 6, 1962
This three-note figure provides a musical closing gesture that ties together the questions, answers, and refrain of Dylan's verse. In the answers, this gesture provides a melodic end rhyme where the lyrics have none. It also enacts and points toward the "fall" that concludes each refrain.