This is what I gathered from different sources...see if its helpful to you... First Couplet The first couplet begins with the question: “What is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare?” The reader can imagine that the speaker has been ridiculed by someone, perhaps as a child … Read more

The poem is rich in similes and personification. Examples of alliteration are:' stand and stare', 'beneath the boughs', 'when woods we pass','Streams full of stars like skies'..The similles are:And stare as long as sheep or cows',' like skies at night'( any comparison with the use of 'as' or 'like' is a simille). In the last … Read more