Choosing to use a simile in the first line of the Poem, the sonneteer characterizes death like a wave. When people think of death a feeling of sadness floods upon them just as a wave floods the beach with water. On line five of the sonnet, the poet chooses to give death a gender therefore personifying it. The author chose to give death a gender because he felt that by giving death an intangible concept a gender, he makes death a tangible concept and easier to connect with. By doing so, he then makes death an easier concept to apprehend for humans. In half of line five and half of line 6 the clever poet combines both enjambment and a simile to spice up the poem. In addition, by comparing death to the grip of a toddler, the poet connects youth
