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Alliteration:

the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.

 
 
 
 
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --
 
 
(Emily Dickinson, www.americainpoems.com)

        Throughout the first line of poem the repeated sound is "s." Usually this term will be seen in a tongue twister and in poems. It is used as a catching device, due to the linking sounds it attracts your attention and will sometimes be difficult to eliminate from your train of thought and forget.