Literary Devices used in the poem Apple-picking

Literary Devices used in the poem:
A) Enjambment :  it refers to the Verse whose sense doesn't complete at the end of the line but  runs on to the following verse. e. g.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep...

B) Metaphor : indirect comparison. Here apples imply to dreams or tasks of the narrator, sleep to death, unfulfilled barrel to unfulfilled dreams

C) Synecdoche : when part is mentioned to represent whole. In poem, woodchuck represents the whole Nature

D) Hyperbole : it refers to overstatement or exaggeration.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch

E)  Epizeuxis:  The repetition of a word or phrase to indicate "emphasis" e. g. Thousand, Thousand. 

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