Question

If you would be busy and fill your pitcher, come,
O come to my lake.

The water will cling round your feet and babble
its secret.

The shadow of the coming rain is on the sands,
and the clouds hang low upon the blue lines
of the trees like the heavy hair above your
eyebrows.

I know well the rhythm of your steps, they are
beating in my heart.

Come, O come to my lake, if you must fill your
pitcher.

–“12,”
Rabindranath Tagore

Which line contains an example of personification?

“If you would be busy and fill your pitcher, come...”
“The water will cling round your feet and babble its secret.”
“I know well the rhythm of your steps...”

Answer 1

“The water will cling round your feet and babble its secret.”

This line gives the water human-like actions (clinging and babbling), so it is personification.