To Daffodils
by Robert Herrick
By Dakota Dunks
Theme:
Simile
"You haste away so soon/ As yet the early-rising sun" (2 & 3)
Shows how our lives are rushed, we are not here for that long.
"We have as short as spring;/As Quick a growth to meet decay," (12-13)
Expresses how we age quickly, we grow up fast.
"As your hours do, and dry/ away/ Like to the summer's rain:" (16-18)
Our time is always running out, once an hour passes we will never get it back.
Rhyme
"soon" (2) & "noon" (4)
Herrick made this rhyme to relate to how short we humans are here on Earth and that life goes on without us.
"Stay, stay" (5) & " day" (6)
This rhyme shows how we want people to stay here with us, but eventually we die with them.
"Spring" (12) & "anything" (14)
Tells how not only humans have such a short lifetime, but so does all of the other beautiful things in life
Caesura
"Until the hasting day / Has run" (6 & 7)
Our lives are quick and the paused dramatize the the fact last day here runs to us quickly.
"As you, or anything. / We die," (14 &15)
Shows again how nothing remains here forever, how everything must die eventually. dramatic pause before the line "We die," shows us the sad truth about life.
"As your hours do, and dry / Away," (16 & 17)
You only have so long to live, every hour that passes is dead and can never be relived.