By what means is the purpose of the poem achieved ?

a. Rhyme
The two quatrains of this poem rhyme ABCB. The rhythm of these short, two-beat lines
include the words, "worm" and "storm". These words do not really rhyme, they only look
like they do. "Joy" and "destroy" are also rhyming words within the poem, resembling a
nursery rhyme gone bad; alluding to sex, violence, and possibly death.

O Rose thou art sick. 

The invisible worm, 
That flies in the night 
In the howling storm: 

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

b. Figurative Language
For the figurative language, the first line is using personification for the rose because it
describe as sick, whereas the speaker could use the word “wilted” instead, if the one that
the speaker means is the rose as plant. Moreover the word “thy bed” in the second stanza
is supporting the Rose as a person not as a flower, so the personification is no longer
exist. So, “the Rose” in the first line is using the metaphore which shows a beautiful
woman using the recemblance of two words (rose and women) such as: beautiful.

The word “worm” in the second line is also a metaphore for a man. Beside the
metaphore,  the speaker also uses personification for “worm” because in the poem the
word could love just like a human. I also foud aphostrophe in this poem which makes the
“person” mentioned in the poem existed or heard what the speaker says in the first line
“O Rose”. In the second stanza, the word “bed” is associated with “crimson joy”, the bed
itself is a metaphore love or in another word is sex.