Where are there literary devices in Alice Walker's poem Women? Can someone give specific examples from the poem of like Metaphors, Rhyme Scheme, Personification, and so on.
They were women then
My mama’s generation
Husky of voice—Stout of
Step
5 With fsts as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
1 0 Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged Generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Kitchens
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Them

Question

Where are there literary devices in Alice Walker's poem Women? Can someone give specific examples from the poem of like Metaphors, Rhyme Scheme, Personification, and so on.
They were women then
My mama’s generation
Husky of voice—Stout of
Step
5 With fsts as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
1 0 Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged Generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Kitchens
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Them

trancenova · Answer

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This question is more suited to the english/writing sections.