Qstnid -Iii-5- Describe The Alliteration Been Used By The Poet In The Last Five Lines Of This Stanza With Example. - 01: Heart Of A Tree By Henry Cuyler Bunner

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Describe the alliteration been used by the poet in the last five lines of this stanza with example.
Ans : In the last five lines of this stanza, the poet has used the literary device or figure of speech- alliteration. Alliteration signifies the occurrence of several words in a row having the same first consonant sound or similar sounding letter. Such words either come successively or one after the other, or they may be close together in a line or sentence. In the 6th and 7thlines, we have words like 'hollow', 'His', 'hand' and 'hold' all of which start with 'h'.
Similarly, in the last two lines, we see the phrase 'sea to sea' followed by 'stir with the same consonant sound 's' in the beginning.