Try going to bed at a reasonable time.
Answer:
the one thing i noticed is that it takes place during the scotland irish war
Explanation:
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.