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Rosanna Warren Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Assonance, Alliteration, and Repetition in Poetry

The poem in discussion utilizes assonance, alliteration, and repetition as rhetorical devices to create a rhythmic flow and add depth to the text. These devices serve to provide a running commentary on the poem itself, highlighting its fluidity and syntactic structure while also propelling the narrative forward with a sense of drama and tension.

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