Writing an English research paper? Rupert Brooke.?

I'm writing an English research paper on Rupert Brooke. I was wondering if his poem "The Soldier" had any literary devices in it.





This is the poem:


If I should die, think only this of me:


That there's some corner of a foreign field


That is for ever England. There shall be


In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;


A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,


Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,


A body of England's, breathing English air,


Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.





And think, this heart, all evil shed away,


A pulse in the eternal mind, no less


Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;


Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;


And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,


In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.





Please help me out, I'm having trouble putting the sentences together and understanding them, although I understand what the poem is about.

Writing an English research paper? Rupert Brooke.?
dramatic irony:





If I should die, think only this of me:


That there's some corner of a foreign field


That is for ever England.





personification:





Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;





metaphorical/figurative:





A body of England's, breathing English air,


Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.





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