This song is about falling accidentally in love. The singer is confused about his feelings and doesn't know if he is in love. There are repeated refrains of "I'm in love" throughout the song. The lyrics use various poetic and lyrical devices like slant rhyme, internal rhyme, repetition, consonance, metaphor, personification and symbolism to describe the feelings of falling in love unexpectedly. Figurative language like visual, taste and hearing imagery are also used to convey the experience through the senses.

1. Accidentally In Love
Counting Crows
By Will Martin

2. So she said, "What's the problem baby?"
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love, think about it every time
I think about it, can't stop thinking 'bout it
Lyrics
How much longer will it take to cure this Accidentally
I'm in love, I'm in love
Just to cure it 'cause I can't ignore it if it's love I'm in love, I'm in love
Makes me wanna turn around and face me I'm in love, I'm in love
But I don't know nothing about love
Accidentally
Come on, come on I'm in love, I'm in love
Turn a little faster I'm in love, I'm in love
Come on, come on
I'm in love, I'm in love
The world will follow after Accidentally
Come on, come on
Because everybody's after love
So I said, "I'm a snowball running"
Running down into the spring
That's coming all this love melting under
Blue skies belting out sunlight, shimmering love
Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love
These lines of lightning
Mean we're never alone
Never alone, no, no
Come on, come on
Move a little closer
Come on, come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, come on
Settle down inside my love

3. Musical Devices!

4. Chorus
There is a chorus in this song where there is a
Repetition of verses. The chorus in this song is
“Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Because everybody's after love”

5. Slant Rhyme
There are many rhymes in this song that are not
exact; these are slant rhymes. An example
is: “Come on come on
Turn a little faster
Come on come on
The world will follow after”
The words that are slant rhymes are “faster”
and “after”

6. Internal Rhyme
There are some rhymes in this song that are in
the middle of the verse, these are internal
rhymes. An example is:
“So she said, "What's the problem baby?"
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love, think about it every time”
The words that are internal rhymes are “baby” and
“maybe”.

7. Repetition
Repetition is when words are repeated. An example
of this in this song is: “Accidentally
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love
accidentally
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love
accidentally”

8. Consonance
A consonance is a repeated consonant sound.
An example of this in this song is:
“Come on, come on
Move a little closer
Come on, come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, come on
Settle down inside my love”
The consonance in this example is “come on, come on”
the repeated consonant sound is “Come on, Come on”

9. Figurative Language!

10. Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison without “like” or
“as” . An example of this in this song is:
“So I said, "I'm a snowball running“.”
This is a metaphor because it is comparing the
singer to a snowball without “like” or “as”.

11. Personification
Personification is giving something non-living traits
that a living thing would have. An example of this
is: “Blue skies belting out sunlight, shimmering
love”
The personification is “blue skies belting out
sunlight” because the sky can’t actually “belt out
sunlight”.

12. Symbolism
When something said means something more
than what it is, it’s called symbolism. An
example of this in this song is:
“So I said, "I'm a snowball running"
Running down into the spring”
The symbolism is “I’m a snowball running”
because he means something more than that
he is a snowball.

13. Imagery!

14. Visual
“Blue skies belting out sunlight, shimmering
love” This is visual imagery because you can
picture blue sky on a sunny day.

15. Taste
“Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice
cream” This is taste imagery because you can
think of how it tastes.

16. Hearing
“So she said, "What's the problem baby?“.”
This is hearing imagery because you can think of
how “she” sounds.

17. Lyric Presentation!
By Will Martin