Question

Identify the figures of speech

A sea of foliage girds our garden round

Answer 1

Answer:

1A sea of foliage girds our garden round,

2    But not a sea of dull unvaried green,

3    Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen;

4The light-green graceful tamarinds abound

5Amid the mango clumps of green profound,

6    And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;

7    And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,

8Red-red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.

9But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges

10    Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon

11Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes

12    Into a cup of silver. One might swoon

13      Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze

14      On a primeval Eden, in amaze