Is there a metaphor in this poem?

To Daffodils



Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the even-song;

And, having pray'd together, we

Will go with you along.



We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.



Robert Herrick

Is there a metaphor in this poem?
The metaphors: "the hasting day" is life,"the even-song" is death...."Spring" is youth, "decay" is another metaphor for death, "the pearls of morning's dew" is a metaphor for the transcience of life...I think that's about it. Oh, and a "hyperbole" is something that is exagerated...like, "I've done that a million times"...whereas "the day is running" is a "personification", as is "having prayed together", although it would be more of an anthropomorphism.



hope this helps
Reply:The pearls of morning's dew would be considered a metaphor.
Reply:I don't know but I think you could make a strong case for the daffodils being a metaphor for youth.
Reply:The day is running, though this is more hyperbole than metaphor...



No, this poem is pure hyperbole and simile.