Question

I think i could turn and live with animals (poem) which figures of speech is it ?

Answer 1

Answer:

It is a poem by American poet Walt Whitman in this poem he compares animals with humans and says that animals are unlike humans.

Animals live their lives with peace and love, they protect the environment and spread love while humans ruin it.

He is comparing human behaviour with animals therefore; figure of speech here used by him is comparison.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

stand and look at them long and long.

Figures of speech: Repetition

Explanation: Here, the word ‘long’ has been repeated twice for poetic effect.

Figures of Speech: Tautology

Explanation: Here, the words ‘sweat’ and ‘whine’ have similar meanings.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition.

Figures of Speech: Onomatopoeia

Explanation: Here, the word whine denotes the sound of complaints made due to one’s unsatisfactory condition.

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.

Figures of Speech: Alliteration

Explanation: Here, the sound of d is repeated thrice for poetic effect.

—- not one is demented with the mania of owning things.

Figures of Speech: Tautology

Explanation: Here, the word mania and demented mean the same thing, that is crazy.

They bring me tokens of myself.

Figures of Speech: Alliteration

Explanation: Here, the sound of T is repeated for poetic effect.

No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

Figures of Speech: Antithesis

Alliteration: Here, two contrasting ideas respectable that means happy or satisfied and unhappy that means sad or dissatisfied are used in the same line.

Assonance: Prominent sound of the vowel 'i' - "I think I could turn and live with animals."

Repetition: The word "long" has been repeated.

Personification: The poet has used human qualities like placid and self-contained for animals.

Alliteration: It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter 'l' in "look at them long and long."

Enjambment: The sentence is being continued to the next line without a break - (I think I could turn and live with animals, they are  so placid and self-contain'd)

Anaphora: It is the repetition of a word at the start of two or more consecutive lines -  

(They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,  

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God).

 Metaphor:

Here, the words sweat and whine have been compared with humans complaints and cries.  

Mania of owning things has been used by the poet to show humans possessive nature.

Enjambment: The sentence is being continued to the next line without a break - (Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with  the mania of owning things)

Metaphor: Here, tokens are used to refer to the inner qualities of humans.  

Enjambment: The sentence is being continued to the next line without a break -  

(Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago)

(They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession)

Animals Poem Rhyme Scheme

There is no rhyme scheme followed in the poem [free verse]