Question

What are the poetic devices used in the poem Lochinvar?
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Answer 1

Personification and Alteration.

Answer 2

Here are some figures of speech from “Lochinvar”

And save his good broadsword he weapons had none,

(THIS SENTENCE USES “INVERSION” OR A CHANGE IN THE EXPECTED WORD ORDER OF “HE HAD NO WEAPONS”)

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war

(USES PARALLEL STRUCTURE AND ANAPHORA, THE REPETITION OF INITIAL WORDS)

He staid not for brake, and he stopp’d not for stone,

(ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PARALLEL STRUCTURE AND ANAPHORA)

He swam the Eske river where ford there was none;

(ANOTHER INVERSION OF THE EXPECTED WORD ORDER_

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war

(REPETITION OF INITIAL “l” SOUNDS IS A FIGURE CALLED ALLITERATION.)

“O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war

(EXAMPLE OF “ANTITHESIS” OR CONTRASTING WORDS—PEACE AND WAR)

Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?”

(ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF ALLITERATION, REPETITION OF INITIAL “L” SOUNDS)

She look’d down to blush, and she look’d up to sigh,

(EXACT MATCHING OF SYLLABLES IS A FIGURE CALLED “ISOCOLON.”

Up and Down are an example of antithesis.)

That never a hall such a galliard did grace;

(ALLITERATION OF “G” SOUNDS)

And the bride-maidens whisper’d, “’twere better by far

(TWERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF APHAERESIS OR THE LOPPING OFF OF A SYLLABLE FROM “IT WERE”)

There was mounting ’mong Graemes of the Netherby clan

(ANOTHER APHAERESIS)

Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran:

(2 EXAMPLES OF ALLITERATION IN ONE LINE)