Sylvia Plath: Poems

what is the poetic devices used in the poem "Mad girls love song"?

poem of sylvia plath

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The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:

These lines exhibit the use of personification. The stars are given human charcteristics (waltzing) and the blackness is personified when she says it gallops.

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"Mad Girls Love Song"