1.Anaphora:

Anaphora is a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences to enhance rhythm.

This poet has used this device in the first stanza. 

little tree

little silent Christmas tree

you are so little

you are more like a flower

The first two lines begins with the similar word “little”. In the same way the next two lines begins with the similar word  “you.”

2.Simile:

A simile isa literary device that makes a comparison between two different things using the words “like” or “as.”

little tree

little silent Christmas tree

you are so little

you are more like a flower

 Here, the Christmas tree is compared to a flower.

3.Alliteration:

Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.

 The poet has used the  repetition of similar sounds occurs in the following lines:

because you smell so sweetly

i will kiss your cool bark

look   the spangles

that sleep all the year in a dark box

dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine,

the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads,

4.Personification: 

Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.

The poet throughout the poem has personified the Christmas tree, forest. For example, the poet has personified the tree as a child and the forest as its mother.

5.Metaphor:

Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.

The poet has used this device in the following line.It says

 “every finger shall have its ring,”

 The poet has compared the tiny branches of the little tree to fingers and the decorating objects to rings.

6.Polysyndeton:

Polysyndeton is a literary device in which a conjunctions repeats to join the different thoughts in one sentence.

The poet has used this device in the last stanza of the poem. 

and my little sister and i will take hands

and looking up at our beautiful tree

we’ll dance and sing

“Noel Noel”

 There is a repetition of the conjunction “and” in the first two lines.

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