1. Repetition of words is used as rhetorical device where the readers can see repeating of some word or words in a short space of those words. This kind of language device is used in many language such as English, Chinese and more. It can appear in both, poetry and prose. It is also used to add emphasis to the artwork and it can also give the readers attention on idea that will be the main key of the artwork.
2. A mellow mood is created by the repetition of the words. That kind of mood is giving the readers softer or more relaxed mood. It is also giving the readers the mood like something is falling down and it is getting more silence. People can have feel of tranquility and calmness while reading something that is having a mellow mood or effect on them. The word ''mellow'' is also used when people are describing that the more they are getting older, the less they are aggressive or short tempered.
In “Hanging Fire” Lorde's focus is on several issues that confront the teenager within the poem and affect teenagers in the extended world: the preoccupation with death, the problem of living in a sexist society, and the fear of isolation within the home
