Question

Read the following lines carefully and identify the poetic device
used here.
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost
For want of a shoe the horse was lost
For want of a horse the rider was lost.​

Answer 1

Here the poetic device is Alliteration or Repeatation.

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because here,

"For what of a .........was lost "

this sentence is used again and again.