tempest:
storm
ungainly:
clumsy
Is there balm in Gilead?:
a biblical allusion, something like:
"Is there anything to ease my sadness?"
ebony:
dark colored
Alliteration:
Repeated consonant sounds Internal
Rhyme:
Rhyme within the line. Assonance:
Repeated vowel sounds
melancholy:
sad, gloomy
dirges:
funeral songs
aptly:
competently
