The repetition in this poem is subtle. Rather than repeating whole phrases or lines, the poem features frequent alliteration (the repetition of a word's first letter or sound across adjacent words) and anaphoras (the repetition of the first word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses). The poem's final line, "Two dopes of the deep woods," is one great example of alliteration. Notice the "d" sound at the beginning of "dopes" and...
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