In the poem "Oranges", the author uses certain literary devices to get the poems point across better. One of these literary devices is free verse. A free verse poem is a poem that does not have a fixed line length, stanza form, rhyme scheme, or meter. For example in verses one through four, the first time I walked with a girl, I was twelve, cold, and weighted down with two oranges in my pocket, there …showed first 75 words of 891 total…

…showed last 75 words of 891 total…and happy. The author picked these specific images to show this happiness in the poem. <Tab/>The poetic devices of imagery, simile, point of view, onomatopoeia, and free verse enhance the poem "Oranges" and make it better for the reader to follow along and experience the poem to its fullest extant. Without these literary devices, the poem would be bleak, and not have the certain flavor of casual joy "Oranges" has.