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figure of speech for the poem coromandel fishers

Figures of speech. Personification ? When the qualities of a person is assigned to something non-human. The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn, like a child that has cried all night. In the line above, dawn has been personified as a mother.
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leaping wealth of the tide - here the fishes is the wealth of the sea and therefore it is a personification
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there are more like 'the sea is our mother..' which is a metaphor and 'he who holds the storm..'whic is a personification
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hope it helps you
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Figures of speech. Personification ? When the qualities of a person is assigned to something non-human. The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn, like a child that has cried all night. In the line above, dawn has been personified as a mother.
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