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What are all the musical devices in poetry?

* Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

* Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

* Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of nearby words.

* Rhyme: the repetition of identical or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.

* Rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

* Meter: the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

* Stanza: a group of lines that form a unit in a poem.

* Refrain: a line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem.

* Free verse: poetry that does not have a regular rhythm or meter.

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