What literary elements does each use to illustrate or emphasize its theme?

Ballad of Birmingham BY DUDLEY RANDALL
After a Death by ROO BORSON

What do they have in common? What topics, themes, and literary devices are shared?
How do they differ? Are they expressing the same theme in different ways? Discussing the same topic but expressing different themes?
What literary elements does each use to illustrate or emphasize its theme?

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