The singer/songwriter Mos Def uses different ways to show different things in “Love.” I first saw the use of enjambents, end stop lines, and rhyme. He also used an apostrophes to express love e uses these to make the feel for the song. The other thing I noticed was that he used personification to giving love different human characteristics. An oxymoron stood out to me as an important part of "Love". The last thing I noticed were that many anaphoras are in the song as well.
The three techniques effects the rhythm or feel in the song. Most songs have a good beat to them making them so popular. He creates a very nice beat with those techniques. Most songwriters don't do this but, he personifies love and confronts love like it is a person, although it is only an emotion. Personally, I think Def does this to show how much the emotional feel of love can really do to one person. The last technique that I saw that effected the song was an oxymoron. This oxymoron is used to explain if he should go out or stay home, so it's intriguing, but on the other hand difficult.
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