3. Identify an example of metaphor: explain which two things are being compared. 4. Find two separate examples of alliteration. List the alliterative words. 5. Where is repetitionused in this poem? Why do you thinkthat it is used this way? 6. What action is described in the third stanza of the poem? 7. How is imagery used in this poem? What is described? by Carl Sandburg The shadows of the ships Rock on the crest In the low blue lustre Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide. A long brown bar at the dip of the sky Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt. The lucid and endless wrinkles Draw in, lapse and withdraw. Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles Wash on the floor of the beach. Rocking on the crest In the low blue lustre Are the shadows of the ships.