First person- personal perspective (“I ate dinner”)
“I never saw anybody that looked stupider, a Violet said so suddenly that Alice quite jumped; for it hadn’t spoken before.” (Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass’)
Second person- directed perspective (“You ate dinner”)
“YOU are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning, But here your are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy. (Jay Mclnerney, ‘Bright Lights, Big City’)
Third person- outside perspective (“Jenna ate dinner”)
“There were six young colts in the meadow besides me; THEY were older than I was some were nearly as large as grown-up horses. (Anna Sewell, ‘Black Beauty’)
It appears that the speaker views winter as a powerful and formidable foe that is difficult to vanquish. If you examine the first stanza, the speaker notes that winter is 'deep-founded'. In the second stanza, winter is described as a man (perhaps a king?) who 'rear’d his sceptre o’er the world'. In classic fantasy, sceptres are often wielded with power and sometimes magic that is used to destroy.
Complexion, complexion is another name for skin tone or color
