List all the poetic devices used in the poem Childhood by Markus Natten. URGENT!
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Poetic devices –
Rationalism the poet rationalizes that it would have gone when he was eleven and when he found out that “hell and heaven could not be found in geography”,
Hypocrisy – II Stanza – when he found out that the adults preached one but practised another. They preached love but were not so lovable.
Individuality – III stanza. He now understood his individuality, that he can make his own decision and is the master of his own decisions.
Rhyme Scheme – The poet does not follow any particular rhyme scheme. In the first stanza alone it has “ABBCCD”
Repetition (refrain): “Is a group of verse or a phrase which gets repeated throughout the poem.” Here “When did my childhood go?...... “Was that the day?”
Antithesis: “is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.” Here, “Hell and Heaven”
Alliteration – “My mind”; “Whichever way”; “That, they, “the time.”
Inversion – “when we reverse (invert) the normal word order of a structure, most commonly the subject-verb word order”, is known as Inversion. Here, “To use whichever way? I Choose.”
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