Upon Westminster Bridge – Explanation Video

Figures of speech in the Poem – Upon Westminster Bridge

1. Alliteration – Consonant sounds are repeated in successive words for melody.

• A sight so touching in its majesty
• Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie

2. Hyperbole – Exaggeration or Overstatement.

• Earth has not anything to show more fair
• Never did sun more beautifully steep
  In his first splendour
• Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep

3. Personification – Inanimate objects or things are given human qualities.

• This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning
• Dear God! the very houses seem asleep
• And all that mighty heart is lying still
• In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill
• The river glideth at his own sweet will

4. Metaphor – Applied Comparison

• And all that mighty heart is lying still

5. Inversion – Words are not in prose order.

• Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
• Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep
• Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour

RHYME SCHEME of the poem-

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