Christopher Marlowe's Poems

What are the sound devices in "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" ?

Such as, alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia.

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The most common sound device is alliteration. In most lines (which are rather short) he uses two words which alliterate - "Come live with me and be my love," "melodious birds sing madrigals," "The shepherd swains shall dance and sing." There is also a rhyme scheme with lines written in couplets.