Literary Devices
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Figurative Language
Structural
Structural
Extended metaphor
""We embroidered the memories of the time I was away / Stitching, 'We were just kids, babe'""
Central
Central
Structural
Structural
Personification
""Killing time at the cemetery"; "all at once, the ink bleeds"; "something counterfeit's dead""
Structural
Structural
Central
Sound Device
Rhyme scheme
"Chorus: legendary / cemetery / married / buried; bridge: legendary / momentary / unnecessary / buried"
Structural
Rhetorical Device
Epiphora
""It was legendary / It was momentary / It was unnecessary / Should've let it stay buried""
Structural
Structural
Central
Structural
Structural
Central
Structural
Structural
Structural
Central
Narrative Device
Narrative Reversal
""I felt a glow like this never before and never since" → "I felt a hole like this never before and ever since""
Central