Identify the elements of Poetry in the poem The Canonization?

Identify the elements of Poetry in the poem The Canonization?My neice asked me to help her with her English Homework, but my major was math, so I have no idea!!
She needs to identify .. alliteration, assonance, consonance, Rhyme and Rhythm in the following poem

THE CANONIZATION.
by John Donne


FOR God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ;
Or chide my palsy, or my gout ;
My five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout ;
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve ;
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his Honour, or his Grace ;
Or the king's real, or his stamp'd face
Contemplate ; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.

Alas ! alas ! who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd?
Who says my tears have overflow'd his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veins fill
Add one more to the plaguy bill?
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.

Call's what you will, we are made such by love ;
Call her one, me another fly,
We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find th' eagle and the dove.
The phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us ; we two being one, are it ;
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.

We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tomb or hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse ;
And if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms ;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love ;

And thus invoke us, "You, whom reverend love
Made one another's hermitage ;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage ;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes ;
So made such mirrors, and such spies,
That they did all to you epitomize—
Countries, towns, courts beg from above
A pattern of your love."

Wide Awake
OK, the rhyme part is extremely easy - look at the ends of the lines. The basic pattern is ABBACCCAA, a bit unusual.

The rhythm is basic iambic pentameter -^ -^ -^ -^ -^ (^ = stress) with the normal level of variations.

Consonance would include things like "LLet me LLove" in line 1 where the initial consonant sounds are repeated. also fortune Flout in line 3

Assonance would include things like "You, to whom" 7 lines from the end where the same (or very similar) vowel sounds are repeated.

Consonance and assonance are specific forms of the more general term "alliteration."

So, now you can go back at look at the poem and mine out these things.
Good luck!

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