Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven, for the first 5 minutes, is a very laid back, and relaxing song. It’s a song that if people were on some drugs, it would make you sit and think WAY too much, because I feel that there are an awful lot of different interpretations to the song. But drugs aren’t cool, so I don’t know.

An element used in a heavy percentage of songs ever made, contain a lot of rhyming. My partner and I couldn’t find more than 3 instances of rhyme being used in this song. Obviously songs don’t have to rhyme to be great and still talked about almost 40 years later. If a person were to just sit down and read through the lyrics in the song, I don’t think that there is any way that they would the a beat in their head going without listening to the song. It just seems like you would be reading through a normal poem, not one of the greatest songs ever written. There are a few examples of symbolism found in the lyrics. Take this following verse for example: “If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, Don’t be alarmed now, It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen.” I don’t have an exact symbolic meaning when I read through this, but I just don’t think that it would ever mean a girl cleaning and making the bushes shake. My partner and I found a couple of other verses similar to that one that can be interpreted and symbolized as different things to different people. It just depends on who’s reading it, and how they read it I guess. The most vivid