Which poetic device is used in nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn?
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Shakespeare chooses his words not merely for their semantic weight but also for their phonetic quality. Thus, for example, every single line of the sonnet is full of nasals and liquids.
There is also an abundance of [s], as in line 7, whithout doubt the best fragment of the poem in terms of musical achievement. The parallelism in the sequence "Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire" takes place in more than one level.
From a syntactic point of view, the two noun phrases coordinated by the conjunctions "nor ... nor" are composed of three elements that occupy equivalent positions: Mars / war's, his / quick, and sword / fire. The first couple of words are related by similarity, while the last two are both nouns in the function of head of the subject. The morpheme his is actually the genitive inflexion, which for centuries was written separately by a mistake in the interpretation of this form (the possessive case was believed to derive from the contraction of the noun and the pronoun his). This pecularity serves to make the reader perceive the parallelism visually, because it divides the genitive into two words.
From a phonetical perspective, the symmetrical assonace in "... his [i] sword [o:] nor [o:] war's [o:] quick [i] ..." is the unusual regularity that makes this line stand out for its musical quality.
There is also an abundance of [s], as in line 7, whithout doubt the best fragment of the poem in terms of musical achievement. The parallelism in the sequence "Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire" takes place in more than one level.
From a syntactic point of view, the two noun phrases coordinated by the conjunctions "nor ... nor" are composed of three elements that occupy equivalent positions: Mars / war's, his / quick, and sword / fire. The first couple of words are related by similarity, while the last two are both nouns in the function of head of the subject. The morpheme his is actually the genitive inflexion, which for centuries was written separately by a mistake in the interpretation of this form (the possessive case was believed to derive from the contraction of the noun and the pronoun his). This pecularity serves to make the reader perceive the parallelism visually, because it divides the genitive into two words.
From a phonetical perspective, the symmetrical assonace in "... his [i] sword [o:] nor [o:] war's [o:] quick [i] ..." is the unusual regularity that makes this line stand out for its musical quality.
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