Identify the figures of speech in the poem 'no men are foreign'.

1. Antithesis: juxtaposing two contrasting ideas

* "Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d"

2. Pun: a play on words; signifying different meanings at the same time

* use of the word uniforms

3. Consonance: repititions of similar consonant sounds in a line

* "aware of sun and air and water"
* "all shall lie"

4. Simili: comparing two things or ideas

* "a single body breathes
 Like ours"
* "the land our brothers walk upon
 Is earth like this"
* "eyes like ours"

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