Poetry Terms

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

My Madeline! my Madeline!

Mark my melodious midnight moans,

Much may my melting music mean,

My modulated monotones.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

“And so all the night-tide,

I lie down by the side of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride…”

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

The low grass loaded with the dew,

The twilight stood as strangers do

With hat in hand, polite and new,

To stay as if, or go.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

-The wind whistled.

-Bright April shakes out her rain-drenched hair.

-The screams of cut trees are heard in the distance.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

Clang battleaxe, and clash brand! Let the king reign.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

John swings like a rusty gate.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

The splendour falls on castle walls

                And snowy summits old in story:

         The long light shakes across the lakes,

                And the wild cataract leaps in glory.

Identify the following poetic device illustrated in the example:

-I nearly died laughing