Which literary technique is used in this excerpt from Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!”?
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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In the poem O Captain! My captain, written by Walt Whitman, the first literary device that catches our eye is Repetition - “But O heart! heart! heart!"
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The different types of literary device that we can attribute to the lines in the poem are hyperbole, rhyme, simile.
- The line 'O the bleeding drops of red' is hyperbole where the poet compares the feeling for the captain as bleeding which is slightly an exaggeration that the heart is bleeding.
- 'Fallen cold and dead' are three rhyming words - rhyme cold and dead.
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