Nancy Keesing’s ‘Children’ is a poem using comparison to explain the horrors faced by children in war-torn countries through poetic devices like assonance, similes, and juxtaposing repetition. Firstly “tossed, exploded, torn, disjointed” is an example of assonance seen in stanza 3, lines 3-4. This example of assonance places emphasis on the pain felt by defenceless children during war as each word describes a form of violence against them. In addition, repetition is used between the phrases “all under such a peaceful sky” and “all under such another sky”, this is a clear transition from one scene to another, with the first being the beach and the second being an area of conflict. This example uses juxtaposition to get a point across, there
