What are the poetic devices/figures of speech used in the poem An August Midnight?

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   Daanish Malik

   2022-04-20T22:22:43+05:30Added an answer on April 20, 2022 at 10:22 pm

   • Imagery- Imagery is figurative language or visual symbolism that evokes a mental image or other sorts of sensory perceptions.

   1. A shaded lamp and a waving blind,
   2. And the beat of a clock from a distant floor
   3. A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands

    

   • Anastrophe/ Inversion- A literary device in which the regular sequence of words is reversed to achieve a certain emphasis or meter impact.

   1. They know Earth-secrets that know not I.

    

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