The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.”

 the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery

 the use of unharmonious or dissonant speech sounds in language

 a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

 The meaning of the poem that is deeper than just the words on the page.

 figurative or descriptive language in a literary work

 a rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.

 word for word

 A comparison of two things not using the words “like” or “as.”

 poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses

 the formation of words whose sound is imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated, such as hiss, buzz, and bang

 A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.”

 the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc, as for literary or artistic effect

 the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.poetry

 A word agreeing with another in end sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind

 a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using “like” or “as”, for example “she is like a rose.”

 an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem

 something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.

 a unifying or dominant idea

 The overall mood or feeling in a poem.