Final Answer:
1. The poem is about a person who has spent time walking alone at night, reflecting on the experience and feeling deeply connected to the night—so much so, that they feel “acquainted with the night.”
2. Some poetic devices include: repetition (“I have been one acquainted with the night”), personification (“the watchman on his beat / And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain”), metaphor (“luminary clock against the sky” for the moon or streetlight), alliteration (“far away an interrupted cry”), and enjambment (lines that continue without punctuation into the next line).
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