Question

if you would be busy and fill your pitcher, come, o come to my lake. the water will cling round your feet and bubble 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 to 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 bubble its secret.” - “i know well the rhythm of your steps...”

Explanation:

Personification is giving human - like qualities to non - human things. In the line “The water will cling round your feet and bubble its secret,” water is given the human - like ability to “bubble its secret” (keeping a secret is a human action). The first option is a simple invitation, and the third option is about knowing the rhythm of steps, neither of which involves personification.

Answer:

"The water will cling round your feet and bubble its secret."