Emily Dickinson

How countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do blow!-- As if with keenness for our fate, Our faltering few steps on To white rest, and a place of rest Invisible at dawn,-- And yet with neither love nor hate, Those stars like some snow-white Minerva's snow-white marble eyes Without the gift of sight.






Robert Frosts', Stars, is a poem that contains a small amount of poetic devices. "Tall as trees, wintry winds, for our fate, and faltering few," are alliteration. My favorite is "faltering few," because it seems to me to be sarcastic. Many people falter, or mess up in life, which means that there are few who do not, not falter. "Wintry winds," is a good use of alliteration, because it could mean a person, a comment, or the actual thing itself. I find alliteration fun to use, because riddles are entailed.