What are some figures of speech used in the poem by Gervase Phinn titled "Creative Writing"?

In his poem
titled Creative Writing, Gervase Phinn employs a number of figures of speech and other devices
of literary form, including the following:

Figures of speech
that are word schemes:

• Repetition, as in the first lines of all the
  stanzas.
• Contrast, as in the repetitive
  opening lines of the stanzas and the vivid middle lines of the stanzas.


• Metrical emphasis, often through departures from an
  expected metrical pattern, as in these heavily emphasized words from line 10:
  "dark, pine scented
  woods."

• , or the repetition of sounds,
  usually consonant sounds, as in lines 1-2:

My story on
Monday
began:
Mountainous
seas
crashed
on the
cliffs . .
.

Figures of speech that are
tropes:

• , as in the relations between the middle two
  lines of each stanza and the last line of each stanza.


• Metaphors, as in the reference to "Red
  tongues of fire" in line 6.
• Ultimate
  irony, as in the way the final stanza suggests the final defeat of the writers
  creativity and a final victory for the teachers prosaic dullness and concern with mere stale
  conventions.

Other Devices of Literary
Form:

• Vivid
  adjectives, as in line three: And the
  desolate land grew wetter
  ...
• Emphatic
  variations in line lengths, as in the line that follows the
  one just quoted: The teacher wrote a little note: Remember the capital
  letter!  Here the much longer line that ends the stanza helps contrast the
  voice of the speaker with the voice of the teacher.
• 
  Contrasts in language and
  tone,as in lines 2-3 and 1 and 4.  Lines 1 and 4 are plain
  and prosaic;lines 2-3 are striking and memorable. In contrast to lines 2-3, line 4is deflating
  and ironically bland.

• , as in the line just
  quoted.
• Vivid verbs, as in
  "twists" in line 11.

The poem is
a€“ at once comic and sad €“ on the ways that teaching can sometimes kill the interest of
students and on the ways that teachers, rather than inspiring and encouraging students, can
often destroy their self-confidence and interest.

For an especially helpful
discussion of this poem, see the "Heinemann.com" link below.