Heaney - sunlight

Personification

"The sun stood"

Symbol

"helmeted pump"

Enjambment

"water honeyed in the slung bucket"

Enjambment - describing the beautiful days at Mossbawn

"cooling against the wall of each long afternoon"

Alliteration

"the tick of two clocks"

Onomatopoeia -sound of his aunt cleaning the counter

"scuffled"

Onomatopoeia - annoying background noise

"tick of two clocks"

Simile - Heany makes a comparison between love and this

"like a tinsmith scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin"

Imagery

"the reddening stove"

Imagery - aunts outfit

"where she stood in a floury apron"

Imagery- his aunt cleans the counter

"she dusts the board with a goose's wing"

Imagery- his aunt is finished baking. Appearance?

"now sits broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins"

Imagery - what's cooking in the oven?

"the scone rising"