Poetic Devices Used In The Highwayman

Have you ever read the poem The Highwayman? I have, I think it is a masterpiece poem. It has so many poetic devices in it. The poem is written by a guy named Alfred Noyes. The poem is about a highwayman that is in love with a beautiful girl, Bess. He leaves the home to steal gold. When he is gone, the Redcoats come into the home and tie up Bess. She decides she would kill herself before she have to see her lover die. After she kills herself, the highwayman gets killed by the Redcoats.This poem is filled with poetic devices, which makes this poem a masterpiece. One of the major poetic devices used is metaphors. Do you know what a metaphor is? If not, it compares two things without using the words like or as. One of the examples I pulled out of the story was, “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty winds.” There are a lot more of them. “ The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.” That’s another one. “His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jeweled sky.” “His eyes were hollows of madness.” “When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor.” Those are the rest of the ones I could find. Another poetic device that we use a lot is the
Metaphors, similes, and repetition are really important in this poem. From describing Bess and to comparing Tim (another boy falling for Bess) to a dog. If you don’t exactly remember what a poetic device is, it are devices that can be used to create rhythm, including repetition, syllable variation, and rhyming. These forms of language are types of figurative language. There is a ton more of poetic devices out there, but the ones that stood out to me were the ones I wrote about. I hope after reading this, you will have learned more about poetic devices and what they do in stories and poems. Maybe you will think the poem sounds cool and you will read. Did you learn some about poetic