The excerpt taken from the poem "Birmingham Sunday" by Richard Farina is
“The clouds they were grey” which is an example of sensory language.
Explanation:
This song tells concerning the sixteenth Street Baptists bombing that happened on fifteenth Sept 1963 wherever four hundred worshippers crowded for Sunday services.
They grow suspicious of each other, afraid that one will cheat the other out of a win. They decide to treat each other as purely competitors for the time being.
