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O Poetic Devices, (1) Alliteration: A figure of speech in which consonants at the beginning of words or stressed syllables are, repeated., Some shape of beauty moves away the pall, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon, For simple sheep; and such are daffodils, 2) Antithesis: It is the use of opposites terms used together to highlight the contrast., Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon, 3) Assonance: A repetition of similar vowel sounds usually close together to achieve the effect of being, pleasing to the ear is called assonance., Surh thi tun, Its loveliness increases, it will never, 4) Enjambment: Running on of the meaning from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation is, called enjambment., Its loveliness increases, it will never, Pass into nothingness;, 5) Epigram: A short witty statement in verse or prose which may be complementary, satiric or aphoristic., A thing of beauty is a joy for ever, 5) Heroic couplet: This is a traditional form of English poetry which consists of rhyming couplet in iambic, pentameter. All the lines of this poem are heroic couplets.
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An endless fountain of immortal drink,, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink., (7) Internal rhyme: It occurs when two or more words rhyme within a single line of verse., Pass into nothingness; but still will keep, (8) Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work is called imagery,, . are we wreathing, A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon, With the green world they live in; and clear rills, That for themselves a cooling covert make, 'Gainst the hot season, „.such are daffodils, With the green world they live in;, And such too is the grandeur of the dooms, An endless fountain of immortal drink,, (9) Inversion: The reversal of normal word order in a sentence is called inversion., . are we wreathing, A flowery band to bind us to the earth, ..., (10) Metaphor: A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another. A comparison is usually, implicit, whereas in simile it is explicit. gey foreuer, A bower quiet for us (the clam and quiet of the bower is equated with the clam offered by beauty), are we wreathing, A flowery band to bind us to the earth, (beauty and beautiful things bind us to the earth)
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(11) Oxymoron: A figure of speech which combines incongruous and apparently contradictory words an-, meanings for a special effect., We have imagined for the mighty dead;, (12) Repetition: A repetition of sounds, words, phrases or stanzas that create a certain effect. Repetition is a, many types. Specifically, a repetition of initial words or phrases is called anaphora., Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,, (13) Rhyme scheme: The poem is a single stanza with rhyming couplets in the rhyme scheme aabbccddee.etc, This kind of rhyme is usually seen in the Heroic couplet., (14) Symbol and symbolism: A symbol is an object, animate or inanimate, which represents or stands fo, something else., For simple sheep (the sheep are human beings who follow Christ, the shepherd), (15) Transferred epithet: Also known as hypallage, this is a figure of speech in which the epithet is transferrec, from the appropriate noun to modify another to which it does not really belong., .. of the gloomy days,, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkn'd ways, (Neither the days nor ways are gloomy, unhealthy and over-darkened; these epithets qualify the, person but have been transferred to other nouns.), Learnings, (1) Beauty is a balm to the soul of the despondent human., (2) A beautiful thing gives eternal joy., (3) There is beauty everywhere if we look for it., (4) Beauty in nature and in noble people inspire us., (5) The eternal presence of beauty on earth is of divine origin., (6) Beauty itself is a divine blessing., Scanned, Witheayty allin its forms helps us deal with pain.