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 Poetic Devices Stanza 1: Imagery: "cloudy seas...purple moor" Repetition: "Riding-riding-riding-" Rhyme: "trees" and "seas" Stanza 2: Imagery: "a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin" Rhyme: "wrinkle" and "twinkle" Repetition: "a-twinkle...a-twinkle" Stanza 3: Assonance: "clattered and clashed...tapped" Repetition: "daughter...daughter" Rhyme: "inn-yard" and "barred" Stanza 4: Rhyme: "creaked" and "peaked" Repetition: "daughter...daughter" Stanza 5: Rhyme: "to-night" and "light" Repetition: "by moonlight...by moonlight...by moonlight" Stanza 6: Rhyme: "hand" and "brand" Personification: "he kissed its waves in the moonlight" (the perfume waves were able to be "kissed") Stanza 7: Rhyme: "noon" and "moon" Repetition: "marching-Marching-marching-" Stanza 8: Rhyme: "instead' and "bed" Stanza 9: Foreshadowing: "She head the dead man say-" Repetition: "by moonlight...by moonlight...by moonlight" Rhyme: "jest" and "breast" Stanza 10: Rhyme: "years" and "hers" Repetition: "of midnight...of midnight" Alliteration: "stretched and strained" Stanza 11: Rhyme: "rest" and "breast" Repetition: "in the moonlight...in the moonlight" Stanza 12: Onomatopoeia: "Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot!" Rhyme: "clear" and "hear" Repetition: "riding, Riding, riding!" Stanza 13: Onomatopoeia: "Tlot-tlot!" Rhyme: "night" and "light" Stanza 14: Repetition: "daughter...daughter" Stanza 15: Rhyme: "sky" and high" Repetition: "highway...highway" Hyperbole: "With the white road smoking behind him" Stanza 16: Repetition: Repeats a few phrases from Stanza 1 Rhyme: "moor" and "inn-door" Stanza 17: Repetition: "daughter...daughter" Rhyme: "there" and "hair" Article posted February 7, 2012 at 06:25 PM • comment • Reads 76 • see all articles |
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