Poe's Poetry

what are the literary elements of the poem?

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Helen, thy beauty is to me

Like those Nicean barks of yore............simile

That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,...........personification

The weary, way-worn wanderer bore.......alliteration ( now you do the rest )

To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,

Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,

Thy Naiad airs have brought me home

To the glory that was Greece,

And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche

How statue-like I see thee stand,

The agate lamp within thy hand,

Ah! Psyche, from the regions which

Are Holy Land!

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