CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words. ‘Humid Hover’ – ‘h’ sound is repeating. ‘starry spheres’ – ‘s’ should is repeating. ‘press pillow’-‘p’ sound is repeating.

Detailed explanation-2: -Melancholy darkness – here the darkness is not sad but the people are. Dreamy fancies – here the person is dreamy and not the fancies. Tinkle – sound of raindrops in the shingles or the tiles of the roof. Darkness is melancholy and weeping like a sad person.

Detailed explanation-3: -Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. In the poem, melancholy darkness weeps in rainy tears. Melancholy and tears are specific to humans but are attributed to the darkness. Again, in stanza 2, thousand recollections weave air-threads.

Detailed explanation-4: -Personification: Although rain is non living thing yet the poet treats it like living thing. So the rain has been personified as it has been given a voice in the rain.

Detailed explanation-5: -The poetic device – alliteration is used.