Identify the poetic device used in this section of text: "When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,..."

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Identify the poetic device used in this section of text:  "When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,..."

anonymous · Answer

We are so doing poetry right now in school and i believe that the poetic device is imagery because its using the some of the five senses. The reader can see you sitting and hear what the astronomer was saying.

anonymous · Answer

yes