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Derrick asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 8 years ago

Can someone help me identify rhetorical devices?

Okay I wrote this poem but I don't think I have found all of the rhetorical devices I could find. Can someone help me identify any extra devices and say where in the poem you found them? So far I have found Paradox, metaphor, repetition and possibly Juxtaposition. If it is juxtaposition it'd be great if you could let me know. Here's the poem.

Lifted, but Fallen - Good Copy

Lifted, but fallen

Remembered, while Forgotten

Motionless, yet Flinch

Surrounded but alone

It's dark

I feel dirt beneath me

Dressing my knees

With life speeding by

The heavy scent of rust

Envelops my senses

as red ribbons,

Cascade down my porcelain skin

My red paint coats the ground

I lay in a pool of remembrance

I shape my picture

That can't form together

The rain drops from heavens

Down my boney cheek

Dripping down my boyish face

Erasing my picture

My basin tips over

Colour fills the ground

No more red

Only black

I can taste the pain

Midnight strikes,

The last twelve I see

I betrayed my picture

Thanks to anyone that can help me out!!

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    fallen and Forgotten are rhymes.

    heavy scent is assonance

    Lifted, but fallen is a caesura

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