what is the poetic devices used in the poem photograph

The Poetic Devices used in the poem A Photograph are:

  • Alliteration in "stood still to smile", "terribly transient" and "silence silences".
  • Transferred Epithet in "Washed their terribly transient feet".
  • Oxymoron in "laboured ease".
  • Personification in "Its silence silences."

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