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What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Pied Beauty?

What Are The Poetic Devices Of The Poem Pied Beauty?

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  1. This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows:

    1. Simile: In the line “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”, the poem compares the colours of the sky to that of a ‘brindled cow’.
    2. Alliteration: A couple of examples would be “Fresh-firecoal” and “fickle, freckled”.
    3. Anaphora: Anaphora can be observed in the lines “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;/For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;” with the repetition of the word ‘For’ at each line’s beginning. 

     

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