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Answer: A. The simile "like percussionists" helps to create a marching rhythm, which intensifies the poem's serious tone
It would say that this sentence presents two examples of personification.
By personification, we understand that "<span>the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form"
In this quote Time is capitalized that is why it can be considered a personification of time, it is taken as a subject. And on the other hand, the bridge is related to the verb "sweep" which is applied to people.</span>
