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What are the poetic devices/figures of speech used in the poem Solitude?

What are the poetic devices/figures of speech used in the poem Solitude?

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    1. Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. For example, “Laugh, and the World laughs with you.”
    2. Imagery: Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images. For example, “nectared wine”
    3. Metaphor: A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object. For example, “Through the narrow aisles of pain”

     

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