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What poetic Techniques are present in this poem?

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Across the neat trimmed lawns

and orfered flower-beds,

of the Cosy Rest Retirement Home,

Mister Death steps as delicately

and nimnbly as a thrush.

As constant and caring,

as the gardener,

as practised and punctual

as the district nurse,

He watches with mild interest,

the grey-haired lady,

in number thirty-four,

who makes a careful pot of cosied tea

and sings a little to herself,

then moth-like at the window pane

of number thirty-nine,

where an old man coughs

in a walnut bed,

He pauses, pensive... and decides

to come by here next day

at early magpie time,

in case he's needed then.

Bruce Lundgren

all help appreciated

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  1. as delicately and nimbly as a thrush, moth-like  =  simile


  2. alliteration =  Rest Retirement, constant and caring, practiced and punctual, careful pot of cosied tea, pauses,pensive...

    simile = delicately and nimbly as a thrush, constant and caring as the gardener, practiced and punctual as the disctrict nurse, moth-like (all represent his movements)

    metaphor = magpie time, walnut bed

    ellipsis = the ...(thats ellipsis for you =], represents death thinking anbout his next actions)

    personification = whole poem (is mister death real??)

    HOPE IT HELPS!!!

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