"Together"

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about the bridge in "Together":

And I've come to

Need you like flowers need the rain

Have to love you

As much as seasons have to change in time

I'd noticed that in contrast to the quick note values of most of the section, each word in the phrase "change in time" is held for a full measure and that this prolonging of note values mirrors the "change" there.

Yester-day, I realized that the words themselves illustrate this change too.  In both rhyme and syllable count, the line "Need you like flowers need the rain" complements the line "As much as seasons have to change in time" up until the first half of "change."  The second half of "change" and the phrase "in time" create structural differences between these two lines.  Instead of a pure rhyme, there's merely assonance between "rain" and "change," and the lines have unequal numbers of syllables.  These structural differences illustrate that "change" in a poetic manner.