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alliteration
assonance
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Ralegh has backed the maid to a tree
As Ireland is backed to England
And drives inland
Till all her strands are breathless.
(from "Ocean's Love to Ireland"
by Seamus Heaney)
True, a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
(from "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
by Richard Lovelace)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
(from "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
my Emily Dickinson)
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side