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What are the poetic devices used in the poem Buttoo?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem Buttoo?

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    1. Personification: Personification is a figure of speech where non-human objects are given human traits and qualities.

    Example- Let all the past be dead and past,

          2. Repetition: Repetition is a literary device in which a word or phrase is repeated two or more times.

    Example- “Thou art my Master – ask! oh ask!

          3. Alliteration: Alliteration is when two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence.

    Example- Shall sound thy praise from sea to sea,  

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