Walt Whitman Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices Walt Whitman Parallel Structure In I Hear America Singing lines 2-8 are the best examples of Parallel Structure. Those of mechanics, apiece one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,The mason singing his as he shake ups ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutters song, the ploughboys on his way in the morning, or at high noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the little wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, relinquish Verse Free verse is a poem that is written without any(prenominal) type of rhyme in it and A quiet Patient wanderer is a perfect example.It doesnt rhyme, but to make the poem make sense he uses repetition, metaphor, alliteration and personification. Apostrophe An example of apostrophe in A Noiseless Patient Spider was when the narrator addresses his soul. Mood in the beginning belief of the poem When I Heard the Learned Astronomer was miscellany of hackneyed and sick. But in the second part of the poem his mood changes it to kind of romantic. Catalog Catalog is like to make a slant, and Whitman makes a list of worker like carpenter, mason, wood maker, etc. in the poem I hear America Singing