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What poetic techniques used in Rupert poem The Soldier for instants is there similies metaphors etc?

Similes:

* "He is like a man in the midst of a flood"

* "He's like a bird from a high nest fallen"

Metaphors:

* "He is a soldier"

* "He is a man in the midst of a flood"

* "He is a bird from a high nest fallen"

Personification:

* "The flood of war"

* "The bird of his soul"

Alliteration:

* "Blood-dimmed tide"

* "Fled fast"

* "From furious flames"

Assonance:

* "Dimmed tide"

* "Fast fled"

* "Flames from furious"

Consonance:

* "He is a soldier"

* "Man in the midst"

* "Like a bird"

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