For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils
In this stanza, the poet says that whenever he feels vacant or pensive, it suddenly comes "flash" to his mind "inward eye" which is a metaphor the dancing daffodils so that his heart fills with pleasure, so that's a metaphor, and dances with the dancing daffodils, so that's a personification because the post gives the the dancing daffodils a human quality of being able to dance.
Sound devices: Assonance: lie, eye; in, in; with, with; when, on; which, of Alliteration: They, that
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