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More Devices of Sound

1. Alliteration: repetition of the initial sound of words in a line or lines of verse.  Sometimes alliteration includes the repetition of both initial sounds and interior sounds of words.  It is known as consonance.  ("blue-berry")
2. Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds within words in a line or lines of verse.
3. Onomatopoeia: It is the use of a word that, through its sense, represents what it defines.
4. The change or the interconnectedness of sound is an important matter.

Language is rich, and malleable.  It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part--the content, the pace, the diction, the rhythm, the tone--as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.