Read the passage.


1.Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote

2.The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

3.And bathed every veyne in swich licour

4.Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

5.Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

6.Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

7.The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

8.Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne,


Which literary device is used in lines 5 and 6?



a non-standard rhyme scheme


irony


alliteration

allusion