Question
The poet has employed many poetic devices in the poem. For example: “Clashed his tail like iron in a dungeon” — the poetic device here is a simile. Can you, with your partner, list some more such poetic devices used in the poem?
Solution
Apart from Simile, the poet has also used poetic devices such as repetition and alliteration. He has repeatedly used the word ‘little’ in the first and the second stanza to point out the littleness of the pets and the house. He has also used alliteration in the poem. Alliteration is the repetition of the beginning sounds of words. For example, in the tenth stanza, ‘Custard’ has ‘clashed’ his tail with a ‘clatter’ and a ‘clank’. Similarly, in stanza eleven, the pirate ‘gaped’ at the dragon and ‘gulped’ some ‘grog’.
