Poetic devices are literary tools used in poetry to create rhythm, enhance a poems meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. They are a composite of structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. Poetic devices can be categorized into three main types: poetic form, poetic diction, and poetic punctuation. Some of the most commonly used poetic devices include:

• Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

• Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

• Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things, without using "like" or "as".

• Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human things.

• Rhyme: The repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems.

• Simile: A comparison between two unlike things, using "like" or "as".

There are hundreds, possibly even thousands, of different literary devices open to poets, some of them very obscure having not been used for centuries. Poets use these devices to establish the feel and atmosphere of the poem and to convey their intention. Poetic devices are important literary tools that are used to intensify an emotion, add rhythm, or make a poem more meaningful.