which of these rhetorical devices does emerson use here

trust thyself every heart vibrates to that iron string

rhyme
metaphor
meter
parallelism

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The rhetorical device used in the given statement by Emerson is parallelism. This is because the structure of the sentence depicts parallelism with the repetition of the word "thyself" in the clause "trust thyself" and the repetition of the word "that" in the clause "every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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