Использование фонетических стилистических средств в англоязычном песенном дискурсе на примере песен Стинга

I'm as dark as December

I'm as cold as the man in the moon

 

I still see her face

As beautiful as day

It's easy to remember

Remember my love that way

All I hear is that lonesome sound

The hounds of winter

They follow me down

 

I can't make up the fire

The way that she could

I spend all my days

In the search for dry wood

Board all the windows and close

The front door

I can't believe she won't here anymore

 

A season for joy

A season for sorrow

Where she's gone

I will surely, surely follow

She brightened my day

She warmed the coldest night

The hounds of winter

They got me in their sights

 

7.Englishman in New York

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear

I like my toast done on the side

And you can hear it in my accent when I talk

I'm an Englishman in New York

 

See me walking down Fifth Avenue

A walking cane here at my side

I take it everywhere I walk

I'm an Englishman in New York

 

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

 

If "manners maketh man" as someone said

Then he's the hero of the day

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile

Be yourself no matter what they say

 

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety

You could end up as the only one

Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

 

Takes more than combat gear to make a man

Takes more than license for a gun

Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can

A gentleman will walk but never run

 

8.Seven days

"Seven days" was all she wrote

A kind of ultimatum note

She gave to me, she gave to me

When I thought the field had cleared

It seems another suit appeared

To challenge me, woe is me

Though I hate to make a choice

My options are decreasing mostly rapidly

Well we'll see

I don't think she'd bluff this time

I really have to make her mine

It's plain to see

It's him or me

 

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday

If I make up my mind

Wednesday would be fine

Thursday's on my mind

Friday'd give me time

Saturday could wait

But Sunday'd be too late

 

The fact he's over six feet ten

Might instill fear in other men

But not in me, The Mighty Flea

Ask if I am mouse or man

The mirror squeaked, away I ran  

He'll murder me in time for his tea

Does it bother me at all

My rival is Neanderthal it makes me think

Perhaps I need a drink

IQ is no problem here

We won't be playing scrabble for her hand I fear

I need that beer

 

Seven days will quickly go

The fact remains, I love her so

Seven days, so many ways

But I can't run away

 

9.The secret marriage

No earthly church has ever blessed our union

No state has ever granted us permission

No family bond has ever made us two

No company has ever earned commission

 

No debt was ever paid no dowry to be granted

No treaty over border land or power

No semblance of the world outside remained

To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour

 

The secret marriage vow is never spoken

The secret marriage can never be broken

 

No flowers on the alter

No white veil in your hair

No maiden dress to alter

No Bible oath to swear

 

The secret marriage vow is never spoken

The secret marriage can never be broken

 

10.Stolen car

Late at night in summer heat

Expensive car, empty street

There's a wire in my jacket, this is my trade

It only takes a moment, don't be afraid

I can hotwire an ignition like some kind of star

I'm just a poor boy in a rich man's car

So I whisper to the engine, flick on the lights

And we drive into the night

 

Oh the smell of the leather always excited my imagination

And I picture myself in this different situation

I'm a company director, two kids and a wife

I get the feeling that there's more to this one's life

There's some kind of complication, he tells her he's alone

Spends the night with his lover, there's a trace of her cologne

And the words of his mistress, as she whispers them so near

Start ringing in my ear

 

Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own

You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone

I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light

Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight

 

I imagine his wife, she don't look nothing like a fool

She picks the kids up from some private school

She remembers what he told her, he was late and worked alone

But there's more than a suspicion in this lingering cologne

And the kid's just won't be quiet and she runs a traffic light

And she drives into the night

 

So here I am in a stolen car at a traffic light

They go from red to green and so I just drive into the night