Writing an English research paper? Rupert Brooke.?

I'm writing an English research paper on Rupert Brooke. I was wondering if his poem "The Soldier" had any literary devices in it.



This is the poem:

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.



And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.



Please help me out, I'm having trouble putting the sentences together and understanding them, although I understand what the poem is about.

Writing an English research paper? Rupert Brooke.?
dramatic irony:



If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England.



personification:



Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;



metaphorical/figurative:



A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.



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