![]() ![]() Listen to all those words: tinkle, sprinkle, twinkle.This technique, called onomatopoeia, is one of Poe's main tools in this poem. Not only do they rhyme with "tinkle," but they also sound a lot like the things they are describing. Those rhyming words, "twinkle" and "sprinkle" are super-important for this poem.Now the speaker tells us about the stars that are sprinkled over the sky, which twinkle along with the bells.While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle ![]() Can't you just hear those bells jingling across the snow, under the stars?
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