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Question
Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.
Antithesis- It is a literary device that emphasises the idea of contrast.
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Solution
e.g. The growth of a frail flower in a path up has sometimes shattered and split a rock. Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.
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