Question

What poetic technique does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow use in this excerpt from the poem "The Day Is Done"?

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.


A: assonance
B: enjambment
C: iambic pentameter
D: consonance

Answer 1

enjambment

Explanation: I got it correct on edmentum

Answer 2

The correct answer should be B. Enjambment.

That is when a sentence continues in the next line, which occurs in all of the lines in the excerpt.