in her room at the prow of the house

Question

where light breaks and the windows are tossed with linden.
my daughter is writing a story

i pause in the stairwell , hearing
from her shut door a commotion of typewriter- keys
like a chain hauled over a gunwale.

young as she is, the stuff
of her life is a great cargo, and some of its heavy;
i wish her a lucky passage.

but now it is she who pauses
as if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
a stillness greatens in which.

the whole house seems to be thinking.
and then she is at it agian with a bunched clamor
of strokes and again is silent.

can you find simile , metaphor, personification and alliteration

is this free verse? or structured?
what is the rymes scheme?

Answer 1

Simile site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
The last line of the second verse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Look at the first line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification
Look at the last verse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse

Answer 2

its is a simile child