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What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Heart asks Pleasure- first?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Heart asks Pleasure- first?
American PoetryEmily DickinsonThe Heart asks Pleasure- first

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    2. Radhika
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      • Personification– personification is used when the poet attributes human-like qualities to nonhuman objects. In this poem, the “Heart”, “Pain” and “Anodynes” have been personified by capitalizing their first letters.

      • Enjambment- enjambment is used when the sentences in a stanza run onto the next lines. The entire poem is written in run over sentences. In lines like, “And then—those little Anodynes/ That deaden suffering—” one can see the enjambment of sentences.

      • Anaphora- anaphora is when a phrase is repeated in a stanza. In the poem, the phrase “And then” is repeated in both the stanzas.

      • Alliteration- alliteration is used when a consonant sound or letter is repeated in a line. In the poem, the sound /d/ and /i/ are repeated in “That deaden” and “its Inquisitor”.

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