Anaphora: Anaphora is a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences to enhance rhythm. The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines. Nor armour for defence: Nor vaults his guilt to shrowd His Booke the Heav'ns heeRead more
Anaphora:
Anaphora is a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences to enhance rhythm. The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines.
Nor armour for defence:
Nor vaults his guilt to shrowd
His Booke the Heav’ns hee makes,
His wisedome heav’nly things.
Metaphor:
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other. The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines.
Good thoughts his surest friends,
His wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober Inne,
And quiet pilgrimage.
In this stanza, the poet compares good thoughts to true friends. In the same way, he compares experience to wealth. In the last two lines he compares earth to an inn amd life journey to a pilgrimage.
Personification:
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities. The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines.
Whom hopes cannot delude,
Nor sorrowes discontent
Here, hope and sorrow are personified.
Repetition:
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm. The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines.
The man of life upright,
The phrase “the man” is repeated at the poem.
In the fifth stanza the word “his” repeated.
Good thoughts his surest friends,
His wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober Inne,
And quiet pilgrimage.
The Man of Life Upright Summary
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The poem “A Man of Life's Upright” is composed using the rhyme scheme ABCB. Thus, the second and fourth lines of each stanza rhymes with each other. For example The man of life upright, Whose chearfull minde is free From waight of impious deedes, And yoake of vanitee, The Man of Life Upright SummaRead more
The poem “A Man of Life’s Upright” is composed using the rhyme scheme ABCB. Thus, the second and fourth lines of each stanza rhymes with each other. For example
The man of life upright,
Whose chearfull minde is free
From waight of impious deedes,
And yoake of vanitee,
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