Help for poetry project with poetic devices?

amor.mikayla

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I need to find eight poetic devices in either of these poems.
Or perhaps you know another poem about autumn with 8 poetic devices?

i can only find about four.

Autumn
It’s nice to see you; don’t you know

Your chilly brightness makes me smile?

You paint my world, you make it glow;

It’s good that you can stay awhile.
You bring the apples, fresh and real,

And pumpkins dress each roadside stand.

The tastes, the smells, the sights, the feel -

You spread excitement through the land.
You whisper to the fading light,

Or howl and toss the leaves around.

You sometimes brush the landscape white

And greet the day without a sound.
You hold my hand, and then we’ll part,

But I’m prepared for winter’s cold.

You’ve left your spirit in my heart;

I’ve learned the lessons that you’ve told.

OR

Autumn

THE autumn comes, a maiden fair 

In slenderness and grace, 

With nodding rice-stems in her hair 

And lilies in her face. 

In flowers of grasses she is clad; 

And as she moves along, 

Birds greet her with their cooing glad 

Like bracelets' tinkling song. 

A diadem adorns the night 

Of multitudinous stars; 

Her silken robe is white moonlight, 

Set free from cloudy bars; 

And on her face (the radiant moon) 

Bewitching smiles are shown: 

She seems a slender maid, who soon 

Will be a woman grown. 

Over the rice-fields, laden plants 

Are shivering to the breeze; 

While in his brisk caresses dance 

The blossomed-burdened trees; 

He ruffles every lily-pond 

Where blossoms kiss and part, 

And stirs with lover's fancies fond 

The young man's eager heart.
 
Assonance---Rhyming vowel signs...such as cooing, moonlight, moon again, soon...repeating that 'ewwww" sound used in the oo together.

Alliteration--using words that start the same. blossomed-burdened or smiles are shown---b in the first and s in the second.

Metaphor---the poem (2) says autumn comes, a maiden fair. So autumn is a maiden. This is a metaphor.

Personification---Autumn is an non-living thing, but the poem (2) gives autumn living characteristics. Autumn has hair, a face, a robe...etc.

Rhyme--Poem 2 rhymes, fair, hair, grace, face ababbcbc etc...

Simile --uses like or as "Birds greet her with cooing glad 'LIKE' bracelets tinkling song.

Imagery--words or a combo of words that appeal to the senses. Her hair is rice steps, her face is made of lillies, robed in white moonlight--all create a mental image.

Meter--see line stresses and non-stresses in poem two..

I suggest you double check all these but I think I'm right.
 
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