What metaphors are used in Bright Star! Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art by John Keats?

Change and transformation is a theme and a metaphor in the narrative. The problem facing the speaker in this poem is that he would like to stop all change, to freeze things at one particularly wonderful moment, but he realizes that doing so would be the opposite of living life, that life is change, even when that change is something as small as the motion of his lover's breathing. In the first part of the poem, the octet, he focuses on images of nature that either do not change or else show changes that are part of a larger pattern that does not change.