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Question: What poetic devices are in this poem besides personification!.!?
He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
On a pile of broken dishes by the house;
A tall man too, says the length of the bed
In an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,


Says the Bible with a broken back
On the floor below a window, bright with sun;
But not a man for farming, say the fields
Cluttered on boulders and a leaky barn!.

A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall
Papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves
Covered with oilcloth, and they had a child
Says the sandbox made from a tractor tire!.
Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves
And canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar-hole,
And the winters cold, say the rags in the window-frames!.
It was lonely here, says the narrow country road!.

Something went wrong, says the empty house
In the weed-choked yard!. Stones in the fields
Say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
In the cellar say she left in a nervous haste!.
And the child!? Its toys were strewn in the yard
Like branches after a storm – a rubber cow,
A rusty tractor and a broken plow,
A doll in overalls!. Something went wrong, they say!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Says the Bible with a broken back

Perhaps all of those are this:
Metonymy: the substitution of an object or idea for a related one: “A goose's quill has put an end to murder” also read: synecdoche!.

But it most probably is only this:
Personification: attributing human qualities to the non-human

Syntax: word order; poets may invert or disrupt normal syntax for surprise or emphasis: “Berries or children, patient she is with these” (Irving Layton); the regular English syntax would be “She is patient with berries or children!.”


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