What are some devices employed by bards when reciting oral poetry?

Detailed descriptions Epithets adjective phrases that illustrate a certain quality of a thing -- if used repeatedly, an epithet becomes a stock phrase Invocations addresses to a higher power or...

Simile, presonifacation, onomantopeia, and alliteration.

They are things used to help the poet tell the story like pathetic fallacy ,connotations,rhyming and that sort of thing. They help enhance poetic and make it more interesting to find the meaning of...

There can be as many alternate readings as there are readers

That depends on what the poem is about, also, you need to come up with thatyourself.