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That Thing you do is a tale of a man who loves his wife. Around her, he feels some degree of magic which ensures he never feels upset or hurt. He really loves his wife and is devastated when she leaves him without a trace and never contacts him again. He is left hopeless and struggling without her love.
The song uses repetition in the chorus with ‘that thing you do’ which adds character and successfully imitates sound. In the first and second verses the words rhyme - ‘so, low, go, know’ ‘disappear, where, fear, tear,’ - which also successfully imitate sound. There is a caesura in line 8 -’My loyalty to you, you already know.’ - which separates two related phrases successfully. A constant rhythm exists throughout the poem which is improves sound effectively. It splits each line into two beats. For example, ‘I just love that thing you do. Keep on with that thing you do.’ The ‘end stopped’ technique is also used throughout the song.
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