Question

potion of a poem (poetic devices)
i went by the druid stone
that broods in the garden white and lone,
and i stopped and looked at the shifting shadows
that at some moments fall thereon
from the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,
and they shaped in my imagining
to the shade that a well - known head and shoulders
threw there when she was gardening.
i thought her behind my back,
tea, her i long had learned to lack,
and i said: i am sure you are standing behind me,
though how do you get into this old track?
and there was no sound but the fall of a leaf
as a sad response; and to keep down grief
i would not turn my head to discover
that there was nothing in my belief.
key
simile = 1
metaphor = 2
personification = 3
hyperbole = 4
symbolism = 5
irony = 6
alliteration = 1
onomatopoeia = 2
directions: determine each figurative language or poetic device that has been circled in this poem \the shadow on the stone\ by thomas hardy. in the box, write the correct number from the key. add the numbers together (including the example) to get your combination number. an example has been done.

Explanation:

• "That broods in the garden white and lone": Personification is used as "broods" gives human - like quality (the act of brooding) to the Druid stone.
• "shifting shadows": No specific poetic device from the key (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia) is applicable here.
• "into this old track": No specific poetic device from the key is applicable here.

Answer:

3 (for "That broods in the garden white and lone")