The Negro Speaks of Rivers By Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human
veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked up on the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,
and I've seen it's muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

The poem has simile because it says "My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

The poem has personification because a dawn cannot be young.

It repeats "My soul has grown deep like the rivers," so it has repitition.

More analysis needed....no explanation of deeper meaning....C