1. Similes:
- "I am to wait, though waiting so be hell" (line 2): This simile compares the speaker's experience of waiting to being in hell, indicating the intensity of their suffering.
- "Incertainties now crown themselves assured" (line 4): This simile compares uncertainties, which are typically unpredictable and fleeting, to crowned kings, suggesting that they have become established and dominant in the speaker's mind.
- "When wilt thou be the same that thou art now?" (line 9): This simile poses a rhetorical question, implying that the person addressed is not consistent in their behavior and changes like the changing seasons.
2. Metaphors:
- "And make them kings, placing them in my sight" (line 4): This metaphor portrays uncertainties as "kings," personifying them and emphasizing their power over the speaker's thoughts and emotions.
- "And time seem three times swifter than thy speed" (line 11): This metaphor describes time as moving faster than the speed of the person addressed, suggesting that their slowness and lack of action make time appear to pass even more rapidly.
- "Then, sure I keep the golden opportunity / That else would from me fly" (lines 13-14): This metaphor personifies opportunity as something golden and valuable that can fly away, urging the person addressed to seize the moment before it's lost.