Declarative Sentences: Used to make statements or relay information. Imperative Sentences: Used to make a command or a direct instruction. Interrogative Sentences: Used to ask a question. Exclamatory Sentences: Used to express a strong emotion.
I believe it’s personification
The structure used is a quatrain. This has a rhyme scheme using first and third iambic tetrameter (meaning four beats per line)
The opposite lines ( 2 and 4) are in trimeter with three beats for each line.
It is an old Catholic saying referring to how important early childhood influences are to the development of character.