Walt Whitman Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices Walt Whitman Parallel Structure In I Hear America Singing lines 2-8 be the best examples of Parallel Structure. Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,The stonemason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutters song, the plowboys on his way in the morning, or at noontide intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Free verse line Free verse is a poem that is written without any type of rhyme in it and A Noiseless Patient Spider is a perfect example.It doesnt rhyme, but to make the poem make sense he uses repetition, metaphor, alliteration and personification. Apostrophe An exampl e of apostrophe in A Noiseless Patient Spider was when the cashier addresses his soul. Mood in the beginning mood of the poem When I Heard the Learned Astronomer was kind of tired and sick. But in the second set out of the poem his mood changes it to kind of romantic. Catalog Catalog is like to make a list, and Whitman makes a list of worker like carpenter, mason, wood maker, etc. in the poem I hear America Singing