Im wondering what sound devices are in these 2 poems
Winter by Nikki Giovanni
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
I think the sound device are are assonance
The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she'd left to me
The thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think the sound device is alliteration
2 answers
I hear no assonance in the first poem.
Alliteration is when there are words with the same consonant sound, one right after the other. Here’s an example: rifles rapid rattle
Where’s the alliteration in the second poem?
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