11 POEMS WITH LITERARY DEVICES (EXPLAINED) - LITERATURE - 2025

I leave you a list of poems with literary resources: alliteration, onomatopoeia, paranomasia, anaphora, anadiplosis, epanadiplosis, polysyndeton, antithesis, apostrophe, synesthesia and image.

Literary devices are very common in poetry. Source: pixabay.com.

- The leaf between the leaves

"The leaf between the leaves complains of being different, to have something tense in the body, contrary to the rest, contrary to the night

and oblivious to the day and the absinthe of the winter air ”.

Alliteration

This literary device consists of the repetition of sounds at the beginning of certain words in the verses throughout a poem. In this case, "la", "leaf", "se" appear in the first verse; in the second is "ten", and so on. This resource gives a pleasant sound to the stanza.

- The animal in the room

"It was a shadow with a shadow, with a dark appendage that touched the curtains

and set them on fire for a short, precise night;

It was a "rrr rrr rrr", a buzz that woke up everything from sleep, a clock on the floor to four deaths, and that "meow" that didn't call anyone, but it had my name. "

Onomatopoeia

This resource imitates the sounds of things or animals, in this case we have the purr of a cat, denoted with the “rrr rrr rrr”, and the meow, written “meow”. By using onomatopoeia, the poem is more lively and also the interaction of the person reciting is expanded.

- The strange sales

"Don't sell me your bandages anymore, nor the ajito that stirred me, nothing big or small, zero jewels, zero garments ”.

Paranomasia

Paranomasia is the use of words that are alike in pronunciation, even in spelling, but not in meaning. This resource is often used a lot when making tongue twisters.

In this case, there are “bandages” to bandage and “bandages” to sell, in addition to “ajito”, which means “small garlic”, and “agito” to shake.

- I looked for you

"I looked for you through the ivy that climbed into the dense night, and it was cold, and one corner looked alone how dark it was to be a space without a destination, and I did not want to enter the day, So I slept to keep going

So I went from madness to madness

so I ended up being somewhat dark next to the night. "

Anaphora

This literary device consists of the presence of the same word at the beginning of a stanza, or of a verse, or of successive phrases. This is done by the poet in order to emphasize the poetic message, although the anaphora also provides a certain sound that is pleasant to the ear and facilitates the memorization of the poem.

- I, I had you

"I, who had you between cayenas at night, at night tired by us, by our steps, steps of not giving up to walk together, like parties, parties in the reason to live in the moment and never separate, never beyond a close look, a bed, a hand, hand that I take you to be the needle of the time loom, time that we are, broken, asleep, alone ”.

Anadiplosis

Anadiplosis consists of the repetition of a word at the end of a verse and then at the beginning of the next verse. This literary figure is also known as "conduplication." It is widely used to emphasize a message around a particular motive and make sure the reader does not lose track of the main idea.

In this case, it can be clearly reflected in words such as: nights, steps, matches, never, hands and time.

- Presence

"Presence, you break the dawn with gray and dreams, you, presence,

We nested in debris from other worlds, we just nested, We were going to know what it was all about, why life and dream, we were going, He knew nothing of us more than we were two bodies on the earth, nothing, howls of old wolves eaten by the paths of existence, simple howls, wanting to escape from everything, but always closed in on ourselves, it was always wanting, then talking was a horror on the night table, you and me, then ”.

Epanadiplosis

This literary figure is that a word is repeated at the beginning and end of a verse, a group of words can also be applied. It is a resource that has a great impact on the verses, so it enhances them and allows them greater expressiveness.

In this case it is present in the words: presence, we walked, we went, nothing, howls, wanting and then.

- He wanted it

“She loved him, and she loved him and hugged him and went through the whole name with him and didn't think about leaving him.

He walked that he did not know and that he cried, and that he laughed and that he sang and that he was looking for where to go.

The truth is that existing like this consumes and extinguishes and leads to uncertainty and life and death.

And no one knew, and they did not live, and they did not exist and they did not continue and thus the dark came over.

Polysyndeton

This literary device consists in the fact that in the verses the conjunctions are repeated continuously, without a control. At first this may seem like a mistake, but it is used with all the intention of the poet. Here in that poem it can be seen with the conjunction "and".

- Both

"From so much walking I looked for stillness, because life drowned me with its death attempts, and I was cold and I was warm in the center of existence, away from me, but close to the pain of breathing.

Thus the hand slides over the table and stops on itself, thus life redounds and redounds in a silence that screams at us all, that breaks us and rearms us until we know what it's all about, until the beginning where it was believed to begin and it was simply the end of what could be seen ”.

Antithesis

This literary resource consists of the placement in the same verse of words or ideas whose meanings are opposite. This is very common in poetry, in fact, it is one of the figures that the writer uses the most to give intensity to his message.

In this example it can be seen with the following words: walk and quiet; life and death; Cold and heat; remote and close; slide and stop; silence and shout; break and rearm; and beginning and end.

- Sea

"What are you doing with my life that is not the same if you are far away? Sea.

Tell me the name that really calls you under those waters that shape you, sea.

And it is that, sea of ​​my people, I do not know which corner of your existence to turn to unfold my life;

And what does your sky tell me? Where are they taking me? Seagulls.

I don't know anything about you, moon crab, neither of your sand at night, sun of the dark.

Whoever finds me this morning, tell her, the sea, that I will be back soon ”.

Apostrophe

This literary device consists of the incorporation of phrases that invoke and that are directed to something that has been given life or to a person. This figure is also widely used in the poetics of many authors.

In this poem it can be seen present in the phrases that address the sea, the sky, the seagulls, the crab and the sun.

- I saw you

"I saw you, and I could perceive the cold of the image of your body prostrate in the morning by the lake, the sun did not hesitate to make you taste the honey of its rays, and the crabs bit by bit the remains of your breath.

Whoever did not hear your gaze never knows what I mean now that I speak, and it's normal, because this life breaks the meaning of everything, and the skin no longer saw my voice as before.

I'm another, I will go differently ”.

Synesthesia

This literary device is related to the property that some beings have of perceiving the smells of colors, or tastes of sound, or sounds of colors and vice versa. It is like an exchange of the common function of the senses. This figure is also in repeated use in poetics.

In this poem it can be seen in the following sentences:

- "… perceive the cold of the image of your body."

- "Who never heard your gaze."

- Where we go?

What happened to that round house that was your name?

Where did you take the blue of the shrapnel that yesterday dressed the neighborhood in red?

I know you know

the streets of your voice lead directly to what you want to discover, and a cloud bird, like your outstretched hand, casts a shadow where there was already one.

Where are we going? Everything burns, everything seems a sunset that does not cease, a red hill of eternal fire.

Image

The use of the literary resource of the image is very common in poetry. Example: the heart of the book. Source: pixabay.com.

Among the most used poetic resources is the image. This figure shows the person who recites the poem or who listens to it shapes associated with moods, sounds, smells or colors, which makes the poetic act more vivid.

In this example we have it present in the following sentences:

- "What happened to that round house that was your name?"

- "… where did you take the blue from the shrapnel that yesterday dressed the neighborhood in red?"

- "… the streets of your voice lead directly to what you want to discover."

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