"In me thous see'st the the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,"
This poem is a sonnet, with three quatrains and a couplet. In each couplet, there is death imagery. In the first, the image is of fall. Fall is associated with the death of plants and the hibernation of animals. In the second, the speaker employs sunset imagery to represent death. The sunset is the end of a day, while death is the end of a life. The final image is of a fire. The fire dies down until it becomes nothing but ashes. The couplet describes someone close to the speaker, possibly a lover, who is holding on tight because he or she knows the speaker is about to die.
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