A Poet Who Doesn't Know it
Part One The figurative language I found in The Highwayman is as follows. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas" This is a metaphor which, along with the other metaphors in the stanza serve to set the scene of the highwayman's visit. "A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin" contains Alliteration with the repeated C sounds and B sounds. "his hair like mouldy hay" Is a simile to describe the appearance of Tim the ostler. "Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot!" Is onomatopoeia for the sounds of a horses hooves on a cobbled road. 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4pgmkeRtQ Luv(Sic) part 5 by Nujabes ft. Shing02 "This too shall pass, but reality bites, it says not so fast First you must climb a calvary of shattered hopes And then a mountain of prayers unheard" This is part of an extended metaphor describing grief as a journey up a mountain. Assonance is used in several parts, one of whi...