. The poetic device in this poem is known as repetition(Epanalepsis). Because this poem is using this device to repeat the same words always at the end of the sentence in each lines, and the purpose is trying to set the main idea of the poem clearly. For example, “Strike them, slap them, spank them, torment them, knock them around, smash them to bits.” The word “them”, which means children from this poem, in this poetic device(repetition) has been greatly functioned. The word “them” repeats multiple times in each of the lines, especially at the end of each of the sentence, and the phrases are all remain the same in the poem. It is obvious that the author is trying to use this repetition to grab the readers’ attentions, trying to mention the
