There Will Come Soft Rains Literary Devices

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In Sara Teasdale’s poem There Will Come Soft Rains, Teasdale’s use of alliteration and rhyme scheme, as well as foreshadowing are all devices used in the development of the theme of nature negating man, and the world becoming a better and peaceful place. In line one of the poem, “There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground”(1) Teasdale sets the tone of the poem in a happy, progressive mood looking forward to better days, and uses sentences like “And no one will know of the war, not one”(7) to foreshadow the feeling of forgetfulness as a main theme in the poem. Teasdale uses nature as a strong opening element in the poem instead of people, and eventually leads in the direction of nature completely forgetting mankind altogether. Line