Help me identify some of the literary devices in this song?

Question

Please point out some of the literary devices in this song and say what they are and why. Also here are some things I think might be literary devices but I'm not sure what devices, help me out:

"I got nothing to do and all day to do it"

"Ive no place to go and all night to get there"

"ticking away at my sanity"

Heres a link to the rest of the lyrics since yahoo won't let my post the whole thing

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/styx/too+much+time+on+my+hands_20132890.html

Answer 1

All the uses of the d words in the first line do/day/do is called alliteration--the repetitive use of the same consonant.

   The repetition of the letter "o" and the similar sound of the o's ==got, nothing, to, do, to , do, no to, go, to, ...etc.  is assonance--the repetitive use of the same vowel sound.

   Now look at the "a" sounds in the ticking away line.

Of course, there's also rhyme.  And word repetition is a literary device, too, but I can't recall the name of it.