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flannels, fire-irons, flints, frying-pans") and of assonance ("year/ earthenware"; 'threat/freed') builds up a formidable catalogue of earthy riches as the boatman journeys homewards along the canals.
POETRY CORNER; With Poet Laureate by The Mirror (London, England)
When Davidson applies these rhetorical tools to historical events (sometimes very broadly described) and adds consonance and assonance, the effect is at once political and mystical, a dazzling combination.
A flavour of peat: five books from Scottish poets by Kennedy, Sarah / West Branch
Indeed, intellectually, I worship the ground on which they tread, for knowing how to employ the wonderful tools of poetry - rhyme, assonance, alliteration, rhythm and simile - without being "lettered".
Cameron's negative comment by Morrison, R.A. / New African
 
 
 
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