Which are Metaphors and Similes???

WHERE ARE THE METAPHORS AND SIMILES IN THIS POEM?


And what is the theme??








There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood –


Touch of manner, hint of mood;


And my heart is like a rhyme,


With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.





The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry


Of bugles going by.


And my lonely spirit thrills


To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills.





There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir;


We must rise and follow her,


When from every hill of flame


She calls and calls each vagabond by name.

Which are Metaphors and Similes???
An easy way to identify similes is to look for the word "like" - in this poem the similes are "like a rhyme", "like a cry of bugles", "like smoke upon the hills". In each of these similes, an object is being "likened" to another object - his heart to a rhyme, the scarlet of the maples to the cry of a bugle, the frosty asters to smoke.





The entire poem is an extended metaphor that compares the season of autumn to a gypsy.





The theme of the poem is the emotion stirred in the poet by the beauty of autumn.
Reply:Similes:


And my heart is like a rhyme


...shake me like a cry


To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills





Metaphors:


...something in the Autumn that is native to my blood