That term is "poetic device." It refers to any language feature or form used in poetry to create a specific effect or meaning for the reader.
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The poem "An Hymn to the Morning" by Phillis Wheatley utilizes a rhymed quatrain stanza form, with each stanza consisting of four lines.
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The poem "An Hymn to the Morning" by Phillis Wheatley is written in rhymed couplets, which is a stanza form where each stanza consists of two lines that rhyme.
Rhymed lines that are usually of the same length and form a stanza are a poem. There are several stanza forms including the couplet, tercet, terza rima, quatrain, rhyme royal, ottava rima, sonnet, Spenserian stanza, and others.
A strophic is a form of composition in which each stanza of poetry is sung with the same melody.
The poem "Autumn Within" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses a simple and common stanza form called quatrains - four-line stanzas.
No, the phrase "chip off the old block" is an idiom used to describe similarities between a child and their parent. It is not a form of personification, which is attributing human characteristics to non-human things.