So your body pumps blood at a healthy rate.
It's certainly sensory. And it's figurative too. I think I'd pick figurative because the central piece of language is a simile. That's pretty good use of language when you compare the bobbing heads of flowers to helmeted soldiers.
They both weigh the same. A pound of feathers vs. a pound of rocks. A pound is a pound, and whether it is a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks, it doesn't matter. As a matter of fact, they both weigh one pound
