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Identify and write down the poetic devices used in various English poems with lines from the poem as example.
Poetry is written as stanza.. It may be called as couplet,tricet octave etc depending on the lines.
There are epics,lyrical,narrative and descriptive etc.
some more types of poems that are subtypes of the three styles above:

    Ode: It is usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern.

    Elegy: It is a lyric poem that mourns the dead. [It's not to be confused with a eulogy.]It has no set metric or stanzaic pattern, but it usually begins by reminiscing about the dead person, then laments the reason for the death, and then resolves the grief by concluding that death leads to immortality. It often uses "apostrophe" (calling out to the dead person) as a literary technique. It can have a fairly formal style, and sound similar to an ode.

    Sonnet: It is a lyric poem consisting of 14 lines and, in the English version, is usually written in iambic pentameter. couplet is the summary).

    Ballad: It is a narrative poem that has a musical rhythm and can be sung. A ballad is usually organized into quatrains or cinquains, has a simple rhythm structure, and tells the tales of ordinary people.

SOUND PATTERNS

Three other elements of poetry are rhyme scheme, meter (ie. regular rhythm) and word sounds (like alliteration). These are sometimes collectively called sound play because they take advantage of the performative, spoken nature of poetry.


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