Simile - The Bill of Rights like a protective shield for US citizens., Metaphor - Freedom is a strong seed., Repetition - It may be you transpire from the breast... It may be if I had known them..., Imagery - This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers..., Symbolism - I cannot live on tomorrow's bread (future provision). , Tone - In the poem, Walt Whitman, the speaker, sounds like he's simply talking to his readers as he narrates his life., Alliteration - I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass., Personification - Democracy will not come today, this year nor ever through compromise and fear., Rhyme - I don't need freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread., Parallelism - I give them the same. I receive them the same.,

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