... and pewter lights" conjures an image of the white crests of the sea and the froth. In the last stanza, the line "slapping its phantom laundry in my face" shows onomatopoeia because it conjures a noise of slapping from the moistness of the laundry. You can imagine the chilling slap, tangible, but not visible. Whilst on this tone of sorrow, the "slapping ... ...

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