a child to his sick grandfather

• imagery of frailty - exclamatives

  "How lank and thin your beard hangs down!"

  "How wan and hollow are your cheeks!"
• monosyllabic

  "I love my own old dad"
• rhetoric - role reversal

  "You love a story dad?"
• caesura - rhetoric

  "you nod, I think"
• ending

  "down on your bosom sinks your head - You do not hear me, dad"