Question

POEM HELP PLEASE HELP WILL MEDAL!
Which form and poetic device does the author use in this stanza?

Our life should feed the springs of fame
With a perennial wave,
As ocean feeds the babbling founts
Which find it in their grave
(from "Away! Away! Away! Away!" by Henry David Thoreau)
open form and hyperbole
couplet and paradox
free verse and metaphor
end rhyme and simile

Answer 1

Which form and poetic device does the author use in this stanza?

Our life should feed the springs of fame
With a perennial wave,
As ocean feeds the babbling founts
Which find it in their grave
(from "Away! Away! Away! Away!" by Henry David Thoreau)

open form and hyperbole
couplet and paradox
free verse and metaphor
end rhyme and simile

Answer 2

I think it is end rhyme and simile but I am not sure

Answer 3

Ok thank you

Answer 4

I thought similes use like or as I don't see any of that in the poem though

Answer 5

there is an as at the third line but if it isn't the last choice the I would have to say free verse and metaphor