Question

Mention the poetic device used in the poem prayer before birth?

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Alliteration

Alliterative phrases help bind and bring phonetic texture and interest for the reader. There are several examples.:

Stanza 1: bloodsucking bat

Stanza 2: tall walls wall.....wise lies lure....black racks rack....blood-baths

Stanza 3: grass to grow....trees to talk.....sly to sing

Stanza 4: my words/when...thoughts when they think....treason engendered by traitors....murder by means of my

Stanza 5: parts I must play_lovers laugh_the white/waves_desert calls/ me to doom

Stanza 8: make me.

Anaphora

Repeated phrases in lines create familiarity and reinforce meaning:

Stanzas 1 - 7 : I am not yet born

Assonance

Repeated vowels in words close to each other help build phonetic interest and add to musicality:

Stanza 1: bat/rat

Stanza 2: tall walls wall_wise lies_black racks rack

Stanza 3: white light_mind/guide

Stanza 4: sins/in

Stanza 5: lecture/hector_mountains/frown.

Irony/Paradox

There is a certain irony detailed in stanza six - if the poem is a prayer and humanity the problem then the man who thinks he is God is ironic. Also a paradox. And in stanza four the unborn child is already asking for forgiveness, for future sins.

Metaphor

Occurs in stanzas seven and eight:

would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with / one face

Let them not make me a stone

Personification

When objects and items are given human traits and expression, this is personification. It occurs in stanzas three and five, for example:

trees to talk to me

mountains frown at me

Simile

Occurs in stanza seven:

would / blow me like thistledown

like water held in the / hands

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