Find out any four literary device and their effect from the Poem “A Musical Instrument?”

Metaphor:

“Spreading ruin and scattering ban”

Simile:

“Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man”

Alliteration:

“Great god”

“The reeds by the river”

Assonance:

“Golden lilies afloat”

“Bleak steel”

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