What poetic device is this?
What does this imply/ show?
What does it mean?
100
Wearing their days like a yoke
SIMILE
100
Yet I see in their faces no light
Gloomy, not pleased
100
Folk
People in general
200
They are round as great billows at sea
SIMILE
200
White clouds fill the valleys at morning
Peace and Beauty
200
Yoke
300
Still round as great billows can be
SIMILE
300
Wearing their days like a yoke
Working hard
300
Toiling
Working extremely hard
400
Oh, how can I show them the mountains
RHETORICAL QUESTION
400
They are blue as the smoke in the fall
Gloomy, dark
400
Billow
A large mass of something, typically a cloud, smoke, or steam
500
And roll themselves up to the hill-tops
PERSONIFICATION
500
Oh, how can I show them the mountains
Overthinking, taking responisibility
500
Tenuous
Very weak or slight