Semantic field of religion

Similes of benevolence

Onomatopoeic pain

Personified extravagance

'A sudden rush/of fortune'

'A congregation'

'Silver crashes to the ground'

'A roar of tongues'

'Their highlights polished to perfection'

'There never is enough water'

'Imagine the drip of it/the small splash, echo/in a tin mug'

'pots/brass, copper, aluminium/plastic buckets/frantic hands'

Personifying a bucket

A metaphor implying that water is as important as a benevolent deity

Sacrilege

Plosive alliteration

Fricative alliteration

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Everyone's getting involved

It's exciting when the pipe bursts

She is illiterate and doesn't know how to write accurately

A sense of urgency as any vessel will do, as long as it can hold water

An imperative

A declarative

Intended to encourage the reader to have a big drink of water

Intended to encourage the reader to try to perceive what just a tiny amount of water could mean to these people

The poet's lack of inspiration

The poet's dehydration

What it's like to be without water

What it's like to have free-flowing water

The poet has suddenly been inspired

That God is benevolent

The excitement and urgency of suddenly having water

The fear and aggression when they suddenly have water