Please identify some of the figures of speech in the poem "Barter" by Sara Teasdale.

The primary figure of speech in Sara Teasdale's "Barter" is
personification: the assignment of human traits and activities to non-human
entities.

The entire poem is based on the idea that "life has
loveliness to sell."  "Life," of course, is not a person that can literally sell something,
lovely or not.  The poet is speaking about life as if it were a human being that has something to
sell. 

A secondary personification is in line 4: "Soaring fire that
sways and sings."

Some other figures of speech
in this poem are:

Simile (comparisons that use the word
"like" or "as"):

  a) "Children's faces looking up, /
Holding wonder like a cup."

   b) "Music like the curve of
gold"

Anaphora (repetition of
phrases):

  a) "Life has loveliness to sell" (at the
beginning of stanzas 1

        and 2)