Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase. The poet has used this device in the following lines. A wounded deer - leaps highest I've heard the hunter tell; The trampled steel that springs: Personification: PRead more
Alliteration:
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
A wounded deer – leaps highest
I’ve heard the hunter tell;
The trampled steel that springs:
Personification:
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
Just where the hectic stings!
In these lines, the poet has personified abstract ideas such as “Hectic” and inanimate objects “brake” and “steel”
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 device in the following lines.
The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
Both these lines begins with the same word “The”.
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The poet has used a regular rhyme scheme throughout the poem. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCB. A wounded deer - leaps highest I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The poet Dickinson uses slant rhymes in the poem. Though the second and fourth lRead more
The poet has used a regular rhyme scheme throughout the poem. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCB.
A wounded deer – leaps highest
I’ve heard the hunter tell;
‘Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then the brake is still.
The poet Dickinson uses slant rhymes in the poem. Though the second and fourth lines rhyme with each.They cannot be considered as perfect rhymes.
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