Thoreau mostly uses imagery to illustrate time in the excerpt. The second sentence is saying that he is in the midst of time/living, and he can "detect how shallow it is," meaning that he is aware that life is short and that the end is inevitable. Thoreau also describes time as being fleeting, but ever-present.
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You didn't give the options for techniques, but I will explain to you what rhythm in a poem is.
Simply put, rhythm can be defined as the beat and velocity of a poem. Rhythm is created by a continuous pattern of 'stressed and unstressed' syllables in a line or verse of your poem. Rhythm can help to strengthen the application of words and ideas in a poem.
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personly i eat comferte foods and listen to my favorite music i eat a lot and i listen to a lot of music but sometimes you just need brake
I think its an Idiom. I don't see like or as. So no simile. I don't see he is something like a marshmallow. - No metaphor. I also don't see a non-human thing doing human things- the grass was dancing in the wind. My answer would be an idiom.
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