Question

Name the poetic device used in these lines - “And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer,​

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Answer:

the phrase strange to tell means that it is quite strange for the poet to believe and express in words that the soft falling rain replied to his question. at the beginning of poem the poet inquires the rain about its identity, to which touring replies that it is the poem of the earth.