Situational Irony

From the glad atmosphere of the first stanza to stanza six, the reader will think or expect the poem to have a happy ending but reverse is the case in stanza seven as there is a sudden shock when the driver lost control of the wheels, crashed his car and dies instantly.

Metonym

“Wheels” is used in the poem as a mentonym for a car. Wheels is very closely associated to car so instead of saying car directly, the poet calls it wheels.

Personification

“Today frees and makes me a king”
The line above is a vivid example of personification as “today” is presented as if it were human who can free or make someone a king.

Inversion

This is the reversal of the normal grammatical order of sentences. We have it in the poem in the following lines:
“Today retires he home”
“Celebration he holds”

Anadiplosis

And it sent him home
Home to rest in peace”
Anadiplosis being a literary device in which the word that ends the line of poem is what is used to start another line of the same poem. It is used in in this poem, refer to the quoted line above. “Home” which ends the first line is used to start the second line above

Euphemism

“And it sent him home to rest in peace”
“Home” in the lines above is an euphemism for the government driver’s death as he lost control of his “vision”.

Repetition

Some words in this poem is repeated. Check “booze”; “fatherland”, “duty rules” and others. The repeated words in the poem is used to emphasize the message in them and also enhances the rhythm of the poem.
There are some poetic devices in the poem such as imagery, alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.

Tone

The tone is celebrating at the beginning of the poem and it shifts to shocking in the last stanza

Mood

Like the tone, the mood of the poem starts from a gleeful mood and ends with a pity mood when the driver dies.