poetic devices
onomatopeia
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
rhyme
was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works.
Walt Witman
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.
rhythm
was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. ... He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.
Edgar Allan Poe
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Simile
a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word
syllable
the best British writer of all time. His many works are about life, love, death, revenge, grief, jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He wrote the blockbuster plays of his day - some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
William Shakespear
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
personification
a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect.
scheme
was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
alliteration
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
stanza
an American poet that spent most of her life writing poetry and hundreds of letters alone in her house
Emily Dickinson