what device is used in this quote from Ted Hughes The Jaguar

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More than to the visionary his cell:
His stride is wilderness of freedom:

English Tutor · Answer 1 · 2021-04-28T11:45:35+00:00

It is a metaphor as stride has been compared to the wilderness but it is also a paradox.