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It ain’t much, but it means everything
Dierks Bentley’s song, “My Last Name,� develops a turn from an impersonal narration of the significance of his last name, to a personal address in which he offers his last name to a lover. The turn occurs multiple times throughout the song; from an impersonal to a personal address, from the reader to a person, couplets of changes in situation per stanza, and finally changes in form, from couplets to an irregular rhyme in the turn stanza, all of which tie into the diction chosen by Mr. Bentley. The song follows couplet stanzas in chronological order, expressing the significance of Mr. Bentley’s last name by referencing his childhood, history, lineage, and an important promise to his father which leads to a turn wherein Mr. Bentley proposes to a lover.
The first stanza has a rhyme scheme of “AABB.� This couplet “form� continues throughout the fourth stanza. The situation, a childhood reference to a bully “making fun� of......

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