Question

Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: 

Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair

(a) What is the figure of speech used here?

(b) Who were standing as a crowd and listening?

(c) “Voice from the world of men” Whose voice is it?

Answer 1

(a) Anaphora. It is the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.

(b) The ghosts were standing as a crowd and listening.

(c) It is the voice of the Traveller.