Question

What poetic device is used in the 3rd and the 4th line of rain on the roof

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Ans: The third line employs 'transferred epithet' by the words “melancholy darkness”. Here darkness is not sad or melancholy but some man who is sad in the darkness. The fourth line uses 'personification' by presenting the sadness as weeping gently by shedding tears in the form of rain. Of the rain upon the roof.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The third line employs 'transferred epithet' by the words “melancholy darkness”. Here darkness is not sad or melancholy but some man who is sad in the darkness. The fourth line uses 'personification' by presenting the sadness as weeping gently by shedding tears in the form of rain. Of the rain upon the roof.