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"I’d dash from the ghosts on the stairs where the bulb had blown out"
Buying Winkles - metaphor / alliteration
the winkles would be wet and glisten blue like little night skies themselves
Buying Winkles - simile
the smell of men together with drink and I’d see light in golden mirrors.
Buying Winkles - imagery
I’d bear the newspaper twists bulging fat ...proudly home, like torches.
Buying Winkles - simile
The needle in its track The knife in the back
Prayer for the children of Longing - rhyme
The streets that defeated them
Prayer for the Chidren of Longing - Personification
The streets that broke their backs
Personification/alliteration
I’m net, umpire, and court; mos,t balls are lobbed over my head.
Hearth lesson - metaphor
The flames were blue and pink and green
Hearth lesson - imagery
The flames sheered from cinder to chimney breast like trapped exotic birds;
Hearth lesson - simile
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
Lake Isle of Innisfree - imagery
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
Lake Isle of Innisfree - alliteration
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
repetition
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings.
The Wild Swans at Coole - onomatopoeia and symbol of eternity
The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread.
The Wild Swans at Coole - alliteration/imagery
My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
Irish Airman - repetition
