What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Sea?
What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Sea?
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This can be considered the most glaring of the poetic devices found in this poem. The entire poem compares the ‘sea’to a ‘dog’, thus consisting of a running metaphor.
2. Onomatopoeia:
This poem has a lot of words that are the same as their sounds. A couple of examples would be ‘clashing’, ‘gnaws’ and ‘sniffs’.
3. Repetition:
The poem has two such examples for added examples. They are: ‘‘Bones, bones, bones, bones!’ and ‘So quiet, so quiet’.
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