This document discusses various poetic devices including alliteration, metaphor, allusion, and rhyme scheme. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. A metaphor compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as". An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event. The rhyme scheme given is aaba ccc, where the first, second and last lines of the first stanza rhyme, followed by three lines that rhyme together.