what are the poetic devices used in chapter The Solitary Reaper ?

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Of course Wordsworth used sound devices in his poetry. (By the way asyndeton is not a sound device. That's a fancy word for leaving out conjunctions -- for example, saying "I came, I saw, I conquered" instead of "I came and I saw and I conquered." Unlike rhyme, alliteration, etc., that's not a device that deals with the sounds of words.) In "The Solitary Reaper," the mention of "the Cuckoo-bird" in stanza 2 is an example of onomatopoeia, since the bird's name is an imitation of the sound it makes.

If you read the poem out loud, you'll hear many sound devices. (After all, the poem is about sound; it would be kind of odd if it didn't feature such devices.) Listen to the wealth of "l" sounds rippling through the first couple of lines. That's one example of consonance. You can hear assonance in stanza 1, line 2 (those repeated short "o" sounds in "Yon solitary") and in stanza 2, line 2 (those repeated long "o" sounds in "More" and "notes"). You can hear alliteration in stanza two ("welcome" and "weary" in line 2, "silence" and "seas" in line 7). You'll hear plenty of other examples.

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