Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more
Explain the context of the given lines and find the poetic devices
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Answer:
Mending Wall” is written in blank verse. Repetition: There is a repetition of the phrase, “Good fences make good neighbours.” It has created a musical quality in the poem. Refrain: The lines repeated at the same distance in the poem are called refrain.
"Mending Wall" is a poem written by Robert Frost that shows the unnecessary division of the world by showing the breaking of the wall between two farms of two farmers.
The lines show the scenario where both farmers reach the spot to fix their walls. When they reach there they see that the stones of the wall were fallen in different shapes. These were unique and felt odd. Because of these shapes, they felt it hard to place these stones back in their position. They kept trying until they became tired and their hands were rough. They simply felt like an outdoor game where the wall acted as a net and the stone as balls.
Poetic devices such as Symbolism and Sarcasm can be seen in these lines.
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