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Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.
Transferred Epithet- It is a figure of speech in which an epithet grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or a thing, it is actually meant to describe.
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e.g. and left them dead years before burial: Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
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