Edward Hirsch successfully and skillfully uses many language devices in his love poem“REGRET”including figurative languages, sppech styles, enjambment, metaphors, images, oxymoron, and chiasmus.

摘德华赫胥巧妙地运用语言技巧来述其作品“遗憾”，如谈话态，跨句连接，隐喻，意象，矛盾修饰法，交错法等，而使情诗“遗憾”扣人心弦。