What are the poetic devices used in the poem Leisure?

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Daanish Malik · Answer 1 · 2022-03-14T12:35:14+05:30

Irony: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. For example, “What is this life, if full of care,”
Couplet: A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
Rhetorical Question: Asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information. For example, “We have no time to stand and stare?”
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. For Example, “stand and stare”, “beneath the boughs”
Repetition: The action of repeating something that has already been said or written. After the first couplet, each couplet begins with the phrase “No time”
Simile: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid “And stare as long as sheep or cows”
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. For Example, “Streams full of stars” compared with the “skies at night”
Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. “Beauty’s glance.”
Personification: The description of an object or an idea as if it had human characteristics.
Epigram: A brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

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