Where can you identify alliteration and assonance in this poem?
firefighter's prayer by david cochrane
our training took place on stairs

in a brick-built tower leading nowhere

with glassless windows issuing false smoke

the concrete crumbling to fine dust

with the incessant passage of rubber booted feet

sweltering equipment to the scene of some imagined fire.

hours over years spent on such stairs

the action of climbing them so grained into my mind

that the flutter of fear seems superficial by comparison.


and this tuesday morning

in my heavy gear and helmet

stairs lined by the subdued and stunned

elegant in morning pressed clothes and fresh deodorant

eyes eloquent in their despair for me

they shuffle down as i lumber sweating up

each stair the rhythm of my mantra

ah jesus,

ah jesus,

ah jesus,

ah