When I Have Fears That I May Cease to be

tone and evidence

worried that he will not get to live his full life "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,/ That I shall never look upon thee more,"(line 9-10)

rhythm scheme

Iambic Pentameter

Poem's meaning backed up by the text. In other words, give textual support the back up your statement

Life like now because you never know what could happen from day to day. "When I have fears that I may cease to be" (Line 1)

rhyme scheme

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

personification

"Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain" (line 2)

simile

"Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;"(line 4)

imagery

"Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance," (line 6)

theme and evidence

Life's too short and to live it to the fullest. "And that that I may never live to trace/ Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;" (line 7-8)