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Ozymandias structure.

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Sonnet.
Oldest form and associated with desire.

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Ozymandias context.

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Romantic poet. Written after an Italian explorer found himself statue in desert.

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Ozymandias quote about statue being half sunk and what language or structure devices are there.

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‘Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown’
Caesura, enjambement, violent verb.

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Ozymandias king of kings quote and what structure or language devices are there.

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´King of kings….colossal wreck boundless and bare.´
Hyperbole, caesura, repetition, alliteration.

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London structure and the effect.

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Quatrains.
Specific order.

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London context.

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Radical’ romantic poet, questioned church teachings, believed in the French Revolution.

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London quote about marks and what language or structural features are used.

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´Marks of weakness, marks of woe.´
Repetition, alliteration, semantic field of suffering.

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London quote about curse and what are the structural or language features used.

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´Curse….blights with plagues the marriage hearse.´
Rhyming couplet, oxymoron, assonance of ´I´

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What does marriage hearse mean.

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figurative representation of how all love must ultimately end in death. The speaker links together the image of a joyful bride and groom with the dark specter of a funerary hearse. In this way, the speaker implies that even love is doomed to end in despair, like everything else.

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What is the effect of being a romantic poet.

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imagination, individualism, nature, and childhood. These poems were often written to inspire social change or an appreciation of the natural world.

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What is the effect of quatrains.

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imagination, individualism, nature, and childhood. These poems were often written to inspire social change or an appreciation of the natural world.

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What is the effect of rhyming couplets.

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help create a catchy rhythm for a poem that keeps readers engaged.

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What is the effect of caesura.

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creating contrast, or providing a pause to allow the reader to take in the information presented in the first part of the line.

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What is the effect of hyperbole.

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emphasis or effect.

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What is the affect of oxymoron.

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bring dramatic effect to their writing. When two contrasting words are juxtaposed, this makes us, as readers, stop and think. Oxymorons can be used to create irony, suspense, or to add comedy to a piece of literature.

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What is the affect of assonance.

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rhythm and mood. The rhythm created is often visual but is always auditory or sound-based. For example, using longer sounds creates a slower, more placid rhythm while using short sounds can create a sense of urgency or quick movement.

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What is the structure of the prelude and what is the effect.

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1 stanza in dramatic monologue.
allow audiences to understand the speaker better and to get a sense of their motivations, feelings, and thoughts.

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Prelude context.

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Romantic poet from Lake District, autobiographical poem, published after his death.

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Prelude quote about elfin pinnance and what structural or language devices are there.

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´she was an elfin pinnance; lustily’
Personification, metaphor, caesura, enjambement.

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What does elfin pinnance mean.

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The imagery of the boat ‘elfin pinnace’ as a fairy boat (metaphor) also adds to the magical quality of the start of the poem. Nature as frightening and powerful The description of the mountain peak is in juxtaposition to the image of the boat. The mountain peak is an ugly and foreboding image.

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Prelude quote about horizons and what language or structural devises are there?

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’ The horizons bound, a huge peak, black and huge,’
Caesura,repetition, alliteration.

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My last Dutchess structure.

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1 stanza, dramatic monologue.

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My last dutchess context.

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Based on Italian duke alfonso whose wife died under surspicious circumstances.

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My last dutchess quote about paint and what are the structural or language devices used.

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´Paint….faint/ half- flush that dies along her throat’
Rhyming couplet, enjambement, death imagery.

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My last dutchess quote about commands and what structural or language devices were used.

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´I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.´
Sibilance, alliteration, euphemism, assonance of ´e ´

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What does euphemism mean.

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Something terrible eg death.

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Charge of the light brigade structure and its significance.

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6 stanzas.
each stanza progresses the story of the attack. There are six stanzas close stanzaA grouped set of lines within a poem., as if each stanza is a memorial stone to one hundred of the six hundred cavalrymen. In the first three stanzas the Light Brigade is approaching the guns.

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Charge of the light brigade context.

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Tribute to men who died in the battle of balaclava in 1854 during the Crimean war.

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Charge of the light brigade quote about a valley and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Into the valley of death’
Psalm 23 reference, repetition in 3 stanzas, enjambement, assonance of ´ e ´

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Charge of the light brigade quote about cannons and what language or structural devices are used.

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´Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon behind them’
Repetition, alliteration, violent imagery.

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Exposure structure and the effect.

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8 stanzas.
The consistency of the rhyme scheme shows the ​monotony of war​, as does the regular stanzas. Owen builds ​rich imagery​throughout the stanza and then the simple fifth line creates an anti-climax​. This mirrors the way in which the soldiers must stay constantly alert, yet nothing ever happens.

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Exposure context.

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War poet, written from ww1 trenches, not long before he was killed in battle.

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Exposure quote about wind and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Merciless iced east winds that knive ´
Personification, enjambement, sibilant sounds.

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Exposure quote about ghosts and what structural or language devices are used.

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Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glazed’
Metaphor, caesura, alliteration.

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Storm on the island structure and effect.

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1 stanza.
Enjambement The lines overflow which implies the constant ​barrage of information​or alternatively the constant barrage of the storm. This is reflected in the arrangement of the poem into one ​single stanza​, as it mirrors the overwhelming power of storms.

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Storm on the island context.

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He recalls his childhood in northern island. Extended metaphor for northern island troubles.

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Storm on the island quotes about their houses and what structural or language devices are used.

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´we are prepared: we built our houses squat,´
Alliteration, caesura, verb.

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Storm on the island quote about a cat and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Spits like a tame cat/ turned savage ´
Enjambement, similie, oxymoron.

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Bayonet charge structure and effect.

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3 stanzas.
Hughes uses a three stanza structure in order to describe the soldier’s charge. The soldier’s movements and thoughts over a short space of time are described. Third person is used in order to present the soldier as a universal figure who could represent any young soldier.

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Bayonet charge context.

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Hughes farther served and survived ww1.

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Bayonet charge quote about bullets and what structural or language devices are used.

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´bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
Alliteration, personification, assonance of e.

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Bayonet charge quote about honour and what structural or language devices are used.

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´King, honour’ human dignity, etcetera.
Asyndeton, semantic field of patriotism, alliteration.

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What is asyndeton and what is the affect.

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Listing.
Speed up the reader.

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Remains structure and effect.

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8 stanzas, 7 are quatrains and final is 2 lines.
The first four stanzas deal with the shooting. The remaining stanzas deal with the after effects of the shooting. Irregular line length suggests erratic, broken thoughts

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What is the affect of the cyclic structure in remains.

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​shows how he is stuck in his mind and is forced to keep coming back to this question. The crux of his suffering is guilt. ANAPHORA ​| A word which refers to a previously used word. The psychological consequences of conflict are due to guilt, highlighted by the blood motif.

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Remains context.

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Based on account of British soldiers who served in Iraq and now suffers from the affect of ptsd.

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Remains quote about rounds and what structural or language devices are used.

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´I see every round as it rips through his life ´
Alliteration, hyperbole, assonance of I.

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Remains quote about bloody and what structural or language devices are used.

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´His bloody life in my bloody hands.´
Repetition, alliteration, link to ptsd.

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Poppies structure and effect.

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4 stanzas.
The poem is a dramatic monologue which is written in first person. This allows the reader a clear insight into the feelings of the mother- something which we don’t typically read about in war poetry. The poem could also be described as an elegy (a poem of mourning).

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Poppies context.

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Poem commissioned by poet laureate - speakers persona is a mother.

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Poppies quote about felt and what structural or language devices are used.

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´All my words/ flattened, rolled, turned into felt.
Rule of 3, alliteration, enjambement.

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Poppies quote about a wishbone and what structural or language devices are used.

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´I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone.´
Similie, alliteration, assonance of I.

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War photographer structure and effect.

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4 stanzas which are sestets.
its very rigid order contrasts with the chaotic, disturbing images described in the poem. This organisation mirrors the actions of the photographer, who lays out his films in ordered rows , as though in doing so he can in some way help to restore order to this chaotic world.

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War photographer context.

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Inspired by poets friendship with a war photographer- intrigued by their challenges.

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War photographer quote about places and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.´
Rule of 3, alliteration, metaphor, caesura.

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War photographer quote about agonies and what structural or language devices are used.

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´a hundred agonies in black-and-White ´
Hyperbole, enjambement, oxymoron.

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Tissue structure and effect.

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10 stanzas.9 are quatrains and final is single line.
The final stanza, however, is one line in length, drawing our attention to it. Separating out this line emphasises the connection between paper and skin, showing the significance of human life. The poem lacks regular rhyme.

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Tissue context.

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Looks at the troubles of modern world- remarks how nothing is meant to last.

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Tissue quote about maps and what are the structural or language devices used.

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´ Maps too. The sun shines through.´
Caesura, sibilance, enjambement.

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Tissue quote about paper and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent,´
Rule of 3, alliteration, assonance of o.

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The émigrée structure and effect.

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3 stanzas.
the extra line at the end reflects the poet’s unwillingness to let go. The poem does not use a regular rhythm or rhyme scheme, which perhaps reflects the feeling disrupted life of the émigrée. The line at the end of each stanza ends with the words ‘of sunlight’ (a refrain). This seems to reflect the fluid nature of her memories and the freedom of memory over real experience.

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The émigrée context.

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She is well travelled and she is particularly interested in different cultural identities.

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The émigrée quote about leaving a place and what structural or language devices are used.

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´There once was a country….i left it as a child’
Ellipsis, enjambment, alliteration, fairytale feel.

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The émigrée quote about hiding and what structural or language devices are used.

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´my child hides behind me. They mutter death,´
Personification’ caesura, assonance of e.

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Checking out me history structure and effect.

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10 stanzas with refrain in italics.
Dual structure The division between the stanzas through Agard’s ​use of italics​shows the separation between the history he was taught and black history.

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Checking out me history context.

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Guyanese British poet who criticises British colonial education.

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Checking out me history quote about their eye and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Bandage up me eye with me own history’
Metaphor, enjambement, repetition, assonance of e.

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Checking out me history quote about nurses and what structural or language devices are used.

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´Dem tell me bout Florance nightingale….but dem never tell me bout Mary seacole ´
Repetition, proper nouns contrast each other, assonance of o.

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Kamikaze structure and effect.

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7 stanzas.
The poem is structured into ​tightly controlled stanza lengths of 6 lines​, which perhaps reflects the ​order and obedience​expected of a soldier. This structure is juxtaposed and undermined by the ​free verse​and ​enjambment​.

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Kamikaze context.

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Refers to the Japanese pilots who flew suicide attacks for Japan in ww1.

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Kamikaze quote about fish and what are the structural or language devices that are used.

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´ fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun’
Sibilance, alliteration, assonance of I, war image.

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Kamikaze quote about his existence after he came home and what language or structural devices were used.

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´they treated him as though he no longer existed’
Alliteration, enjambement, assonance of e.

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