Christopher Marlowe's Poems
What are the sound devices in "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" ?
Such as, alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia.
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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.