Figures of speech in the Poem – Upon Westminster Bridge
- 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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