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What are the poetic devices used in the poem mutability?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem mutability?

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    1. Alliteration: A couple of examples would be ‘midnight moon’, and ‘frail frame’
    2. Simile: Throughout the poem, humans have been compared to a lot of things with the usage of the words ‘as’ and ‘like’. Examples would be ‘as clouds’, and ‘forgotten lyres’.
    1. Personification: In the first stanza ‘Night’ is personified.

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