Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech poem She Walks in Beauty 12th English
She Walks in Beauty
Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech:
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘k’ and ‘s’.
2. Simile- woman compared to ‘a night of cloudless climes and starry skies’
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘b’.
2. Antithesis: two opposite words ‘dark’ and ‘bright’.
3. Repetition- her
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘t’ and ‘d’.
2.Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
3.Metonymy- ‘heaven’, this word is used for GOD.
- One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘h’.
2. Antithesis: two opposite words ‘more’ and ‘less’.
- Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘w’.
2. Metaphor- the darkness of the woman’s tress has been compared to a ‘raven’s black and shiny feathers.
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’ and ‘d’.
2.Personification- animate qualities are given to the word ‘thoughts’.
3. Metaphor- the ‘mind’ has been compared to a ‘dwelling place’.
- And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘s’.
2.Personification- animate qualities are given to the words ‘cheeks’ and ‘brow’.
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘t’, ‘g’ and ‘s’.
2. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
3.Personification- animate qualities are given to the words ‘smiles’ and ‘tints’.
A mind at peace with all below,
Answer: 1. Personification- animate qualities are given to the words ‘mind’.
A heart whose love is innocent!
Answer: 1. Exclamation