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What happens at this marked point in this poem by Donne?

                                Is the Pacific Sea my home? Or are<<<<<
                                   The eastern riches? Is Jerusalem?
                               Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltar,
                                   All straits, and none but straits, are ways to them,
                                   Whether where Japhet dwelt, or Cham, or Shem.
 
 
 
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
masculine rhyme beat/ictus end-stopped
feminine rhyme implied offbeat anacrusis
multiple rhyme unrealized beat hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme  tumbling verse diaeresis
monorhyme  sprung rhythm substitution
rhyme riche poetic contraction elision
internal rhyme synaeresis hemistich
assonance  syncope caesura