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What are the poetic devices used in the poem Home sweet home?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem Home sweet home?

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    • Repetition- It is the repetition of a word or a phrase in the poem for poetic effect. Example- “Home, home, sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, oh, there’s no place like home!”
    • Alliteration- It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Examples- “pleasures and palaces”, “the sky seems”, “mmother”, “the woodbine, whose”, “a fond father’s”
    • Personification– Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. Example- “To thee I’ll return” (The poet is addressing his home as a person here)

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