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Now hush little baby, don't you cry

Everything's gonna be alright

Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya

Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why

We fear how we feel inside

Poetic device: Repetition

Reason: This chorus repeats twice and it is important to this music.

when it swirls

When it whirls, when it twirls

Two little beautiful girls

Poetic device: Rhyme

Reason: This type of poetic device rhymes because swirls, whirls, twirls, and girls rhyme.

I don't see us ever being together ever again

Like we used to be when we were teenagers

Poetic device: Simile

Reason: This type of sentence was comparing between his school days to how they don't ever see each other again.

Cause daddy felt like a bum

Poetic device: Simile

Reason: How "daddy" was compared to a "bum", as a poor guy with no money.

(haha)

Poetic device: Onomatopoeia

Reason: "Ha Ha" was used to imitate the sound of a real laughter.

Papa was a rollin' stone

Poetic device: Metaphor

Reason: He was comparing two dissimilar objects which was Papa (himself) to a rollin'stone.

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hope and not caring about small things that are not worth the time ... simle and have fun

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I'm pretty sure that it has a guitar, drums, the piano and the tamerine but that's all I can figure out! Anyway I hope this answer was useful for you :)

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