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I’m growing fonder of my staff; / I’m growing dimmer in the eyes;
I’m growing fainter in my laugh; / I’m growing deeper in my sighs;
Rhythm, repetition, rhyme, assonance
Confound the cats! All cats–away– / Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;
By night a nuisance and by day– / Confound the cats! All cats, always.
Rhythm, alliteration, repetition, rhyme
Across the moorlands of the Not / We chase the gruesome When;
And hunt the Itness of the What / Through forests of the Then.
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Rhythm, rhyme
Big Balloons Bounce into the Big Blue Sky
Up, up, and away
There they go
Alliteration, repetition
BANG!!! There goes another building.
BOOM!!! And there goes 2 more, Said the man in the seat of a military tank.
BAM!!! There goes another. Life is hard when you don’t have a father to guide you.
BOOM!!! You could end up in jail,
BANG!!! You could end up crazy.
Onomatopoeia, repetition
Buzz, goes the blue fly, / Hum, goes the bee,
Buzz and hum they cry, / And so do we:
Onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm
Her finger hungered for a ring.
The satin mittens were ancient.
You could paddle through the spittle in the bottle.
Consonance, personification, hyperbole
Tiger, Tiger burning bright, /
in the forests of the night,
Repetition, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration
This falling spray of snow-flakes is a handful of dead Februaries
Personification, alliteration
My sisters tears that sing upon my head
Personification, alliteration
As the bird chirps the frog croaks
Onomatopoeia, alliteration
For if dreams die /
Life is a broken-winged bird /
That cannot fly.
Alliteration, metaphor, rhythm
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