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"When my mother died I was very young,

And my father sold me while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.

So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep." - The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake

"Wind" is considered a near rhyme with "behind" because they do not sound the same.

The meter of the first quatrain starts as iambic pentameter, but then Blake disrupts this pattern in each line. Blake also uses a spondaic rhythm in the third foot of line one. These interruptions catch the reader off guard.

"Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,

They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind." - The Chimney Sweep by William Blake

Blake uses assonance to connect "awoke" and "rose".

"And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark," - The Chimney Sweep by William Blake

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Literary Devices

By Jessica