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Poetic Devices
Millay also repeats consonant sounds for emphasis. See **repetition**//.//
 * Alliteration** (the repetition of the first consonant sound in neighboring words) connects the lines and keeps the sonnet flowing. Examples of alliteration:
 * "many a man is making" (7)
 * "lack of love alone" (8)
 * "pinned down by pain... past resolution's power" (10-11) (Simon)


 * Imagery** is using vivid and expressing language to evoke pictures or feelings. Examples of imagery:
 * "a roof against the rain" (2)
 * "thickened lung" (5)
 * "Pinned down by pain and moaning" (10) (Effinger)


 * Repetition** in poetry is multiple uses of a word, phrase, sound, or stanza. "Love Is Not All" uses a significant amount of repetition for emphasis, and also to connect different parts of the poem together:
 * "not" and "nor" (1-3, 5-6)
 * "And rise and sink and rise and sink" (4)
 * Repetition of the letter "B" as in "breath" (5), "blood" (6), and "bone" (6) (Effinger)
 * Repetition of the letter "P" in "pinned," "pain," "past," "power," "peace" (10-12) (Simon)
 * "It well may be" (9, 14)


 * Rhyme** is the repeated use of a a similar sound, is a form of repetition.The rhyme scheme in "Love Is Not All" (see Structure) groups sets of lines that share a main idea together. Our observation of this was supported by the website of an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania (found at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/repetition.html).