What is figure of speech 'I stand and look at them long and long
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The line 'I stand and look at them long and long' has been taken from the poem 'Animals' by Walt Whitman. Repetition has been used in this line.
According to Wikipedia, 'Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis. It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.'
" Alliteration is the figure of speech involved here.The line I stand and look at them long and long belongs to the poem 'Animals' whose poet is Walt Whitman.
Alliteration is one of the figure of speeches used in poems which points to the repetition of words starting with the same letter. In the given line, the words look, long and long are the words which start with the same letter and is repeated. "