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Phoebe Cary's ballad is the device.
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What are the poetic devices in the ballad "A Legend of the Northland" by Phoebe Cary?
Poetic devices in Phoebe Cary's ballad "A Legend of the Northland" include simile, alliteration, apostrophe, dialogue, repetition, punning.
One poetic device used in Phoebe Cary's ballad is simile, a comparison that uses the words "like" or "as." Cary uses a simile with the word "like" when she compares the children to young animals:
And the children look like bear's cubs
She uses "as" to create a simile when she says of the selfish woman's bread that it was
baked ... thin as a wafer
Cary employs alliteration, the repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of words placed close together, when she refers to the children's
funny, furry clothes
Peter emphasizes the tedium of the woman's future role before he changes her into a woodpecker by using three poetic devices. The first is the repetition of the word "boring," which creates a sense of tedium. This word is also a pun, which is when a word or words have a double meaning: in this case, "boring" refers to boring into the wood for food and to the fact that such an endless job will be boring or uninteresting. The line also uses polysyndeton, which is the use of a string of conjunctions. Here, Cary uses "and" twice, when in normal prose the line would omit the first "and." This slows the line down, also reinforcing the boredom of the woodpecker's toil:
There are a number of poetic devices throughout "A Legend of the Northland" by Phoebe Carey. One that stands out the most is a simile, which is a comparison between two things (that are not usually compared to each other) using the words "like" or "as."
In this poem there is a simile on lines 7-8: "the children look like bear's cubs / In their funny, furry clothes." This is not only comparing children to bear cubs but it is also giving the reader a better understanding of just how cold it is. The children must have many heavy layers on to stay warm. Similarly, the simile "thin as a wafer" on line 35 helps to understand the way in which a cake looks, and "black as a coal in the flame" on line 60 helps the reader to understand the darkness of the woman's new form when she is changed into a woodpecker.
The poem also contains a number of sound devices. For example, the lines "And being faint with fasting, / For the day was almost done" contain alliteration, which is the repetition of consonant sounds (in "faint/fasting/for" and "day/done"). Another sound device at work in the poem are end rhymes on lines 2 and 4, 6 and 8, 10 and 12, and so on. This gives a sing-songy rhythm to the poem which helps not only in reading but also in developing the tone and mood of the
The major literary devices, also called poetic devices, in "A Legend of the Northland" by Phoebe Cary are in the literary element category, with a striking absence of any in the literary technique category. The most striking literary elements pertain to the structure of the quatrain stanzas (four lines per stanza) that have no end punctuation. Each line rolls to the other through enjambment. It works very well in most spots, although there are one or two places where the enjambment is clumsy, such as "Where a little woman was making cakes / And baking them on the hearth / And being faint from fasting... ." There is both an explicit speaker ("tell me a curious story") and an explicit addressee ("yet you might learn"). The poem is a dramatic narrative told from inside a frame in which the speaker introduces the story to the addressee. The rhyme scheme is alternates unrhymed lines with rhymed ones in an abcb defe etc. pattern. The major literary technique is sensory imagery that includes vision, taste, and sound as Saint Peter (the technique of Biblical allusion) approaches the cottage and witnesses the baking of the cakes then turns the woman into a woodpecker that can be heard tapping tapping on a tree. The absence of symbolism, metaphor, and simile are striking.