Identifying Poetry Devices
And I will return, my love, / even if it were a million miles.
Hyperbole
Chant in a wail / that never halts, / pace a circle and pay tribute / with a song.
Hyperbole
She soothed her secret sorrow.
Alliteration
Women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
Alliteration
Vague pageants woven on a web of dream! And we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream / Of modern life
Metaphor
Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of the night.
Onomatopoeia
The streets were strange and still, / Through the doors of the open churches The organs were moaning shrill.
Personification
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
Simile
He answered her he knew not what: / Like shaft from bow at random shot,
Simile
He would contemplate the distance / With a look of pensive meaning, As of ducks that die in ill tempests.
Simile
