Poetic Devices Help PLZ :>?

Question

The Promise of Spring - A Triple Fibonacci

By Elaine George

I

Will

Kiss you

While you sleep

Lady dressed in white

And melt your cold heart made of ice

Then

You

Will rise

Liquefied

High into the sky

And fall as raindrops from God’s eyes

To

The

Waiting

Buds below

Where now you will grow

With me - in the bloom of a rose

What poetic devices can you find in this?

Answer 1

Since the title of the poem is "The Promise of Spring," the "I" in the first line seems to be spring, and the "you" in line 3 seems to be winter.  So spring is talking to winter.  A season can't really talk, of course, so that's an example of personification, giving human traits to non-human things.  What other examples of personification can you find in that first stanza?  What does winter do in the poem that human beings really can do but a season really can't?

You know what a metaphor is, I'm sure.  When a poem uses metaphor, it compares two things by saying that one of them is the other.  Sometimes the metaphor doesn't even name one of the things involved in the comparison.  For example, in line 5 of the first stanza, the poem compares something, some aspect of winter that you should be able to identify, to a woman's white garments.  The very next line uses another metaphor.  What two things does it compare?  See if you can find yet another metaphor in the second stanza.

Look up the terms "end rhyme," "internal rhyme," and "assonance."  Then read the poem aloud listening for repeated sounds that are examples of those poetic devices.