English Language · English Literature
Identify the poetic technique used in the following lines from John Donne's 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning': 'If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.'
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