Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to non-living things. The cloud is a nonliving object. In the poem, the cloud tells what it is and what it does like a human being. It brings rain and provides shade, it makes the sweet buds blossom. It wields the flail of hail like the man who threshes the grain with a flail. It dissolves the hailstones. It laughs as it passes in thunderstorms. It is personified as the daughter of the earth and water and a baby who is taken care of by the sky. After the rain the sky becomes clear and the cloud arises again like a child from the womb of its mother, like a ghost from the tomb.