can you please list 4-5 different patterns of repetition in the poem? 10 points for best!?

by admin on February 7, 2010

can you please list 4-5 different patterns of repetition in the poem?
thank you!

"Boxcars and electric guitars; ospreys, oceans, glaciers, coins; the whisper of the green corn kachina; the hard sell, the fast buck, casual traffic, nothing at all; nighthawks of the twenty-four-hour donut shops; maples enflamed by the sugars of autumn; aspens lilting sap yellow and viridian; concrete communion of the cloverleaves and interchanges; psalms, sorrow; gold mines, zydeco, alfalfa, 14th street; sheets of rain across the hills of Antietam; weedy bundles of black-eyed Susans in the vacant lots of Baltimore; smell of eggs and bacon at Denny’s, outside Flagstaff, 4 A.M.; bindle stiffs, broken glass; the solitary drifter; the sprinklers of suburbia; protest rallies, rocket launches, traffic jams, swap meets; the Home Shopping Network hawking cubic zirconium; song of the chainsaw and the crack of the bat; wheels of progress and mastery; tug boats, billboards, foghorns, folk songs; pinball machines and mechanical hearts; brave words spoken in ignorance; dance music from the Union Hall; knots of migrant workers like buoys among waves or beads in the green weave of strawberry fields around Watsonville; the faithful touched by tongues of flame in the Elvis cathedrals of Vegas; wildflowers and anthracite; smokestacks and sequoias; avenues of bowling alleys and flamingo tattoos; car alarms, windmills, wedding bells, the blues. "

— from American Noise by Campbell McGrath

1) Idioms: The hard sell, the fast buck, casual traffic

2) Alliteration: concrete communion of cloverleaves

3) Fire or fire references: enflamed by, tongues of flame, smokestack

4) Nature: Green corn, Maples, Aspens, alfalfa, strawberry fields, wildflowers, sequoias

5) Music: Electric guitar, song of the chainsaw, folk songs, dance music, wedding bells

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Mysstere

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mysstere February 7, 2010 at 3:00 pm

1) Idioms: The hard sell, the fast buck, casual traffic

2) Alliteration: concrete communion of cloverleaves

3) Fire or fire references: enflamed by, tongues of flame, smokestack

4) Nature: Green corn, Maples, Aspens, alfalfa, strawberry fields, wildflowers, sequoias

5) Music: Electric guitar, song of the chainsaw, folk songs, dance music, wedding bells

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Mysstere
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