Answer:
Numerically
Explanation:
I think it is numerically because we were just talking about Roman Numerals in the previous sections but I'm not too sure..
I have never read what you are asking, but just by looking at it, I would assume that he is stereotyping Dutch people, because he is calling Black Dog an insult, which is "son of a dutchman".
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.
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1. look over it quickly to get a sense of its contents.