Rhetorical Figures in Yeats's \

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December 1, 2016

 

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The poet uses alliteration in the form of consonance: the plosive "b" first found in "blow" subtly batters the ear throughout the quatrain--"beating," "bill," and "breast," which occurs twice; the initial "g" found in "great" echoes in "girl"; and an initial "h" repeats in "her," which occurs three times, "he," "holds," "helpless," and "his"...
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Yeats ends the first line with "beating still," an example of anastrophe, a kind of hyperbaton, the unusual arrangement of words or clauses within a sentence, frequently for poetic effect. The figure not only creates tension through arrangement but also through anticipation of rhyme. The first quatrain consists of a periodic sentence, a sentence in which the sense is not completed until the end, and this creates more tension...
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