Christopher Marlowe's Poems
What are the sound devices in "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" ?
Such as, alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia.
Such as, alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia.
The most common sound device is alliteration. In most lines (which are rather short) he uses two words which alliterate - "Come live with me and be my love," "melodious birds sing madrigals," "The shepherd swains shall dance and sing." There is also a rhyme scheme with lines written in couplets.